Rewiew Lord Of The Flies
flock of English boys of various upbringings find themselves stranded on what appears to be an idyllic, deserted island after an evacuation gone wrong. A war has broken out and a nuclear bomb has been dropped. The children, being brought together in the now shot-down evacuation plane, are from various upbringings; Ralph, who is from a middle-class home, Piggy, who is a fat orphan who wears glasses, he is also the most intelligent of them but lack any social skills, Simon, the youngest of the older boys, Sam and Eric, who are twins and acts like one, the choir from the cathedral school, led by Jack Merridew, and a bunch of younger kids about 6 or 7 years old who later become known by the general title of “littluns”. The older boys are around 10 to13 years old.
The kids think the island is a paradise like the one the kids in the book Coral Island are stranded on. At the first of the many assemblies held on the island, which is called by Ralph with a conch, the boys elect Ralph as their leader, clearly to the dislike of Jack, his ‘rival’ in the game of voting. Jack later decides to take his choir with him to hunt wild pigs. His first attempt to kill a pig fails, but he promises himself he will do it better “next time”. At a later assembly it is decided that ‘whoever holds the conch gets to speak’. A little boy with a birthmark on his face claims he has seen a beast on the island. The older boys quickly dismiss the idea of a beast as a vivid nightmare, but the littluns are not comforted with this logical explanation. Jack stresses that they need skilled hunters to catch the wild pigs on the island. Ralph suggests they must make a fire to attract any passing boats if they are to have any hope of being rescued. The boys hurry off to the nearby mountain, inspired by this hint of intelligence. But when it is time to light the fire, they must admit that they didn’t think about how they should light it. Jack takes Piggy’s specks and Ralph fumbles to light the fire with...
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