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The Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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The book I read was The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. This book is about a group of young boys that are stranded on a deserted island. Throughout the story, the boys must figure out to how survive. The two main characters, Ralph and Jack, have different views on how life should be on the island which leads to the main conflict of the book. The two boys create different tribes that fight each other for control for the island. For this project I decided to focus on the characters Jack, Ralph, and Piggy. Throughout the book, the theme that is represented is when there is no one to enforce the rules of society, the lines between savagery and civilization blur. The first character represented on my visual is Jack. I represented Jack with

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