Lord of the Flies

The book took place during the nuclear war in England. The airplane exploded and crash into the island leaving the boys between the ages of 6 to 12 with no adult supervision. They figured out if they want to live, they have to form their own civilization similar to the old one.

Ralph was elected as leader because the boys think he was a natural leader and he is the oldest one of all. Knowing that they want to be rescued, Ralph thought that they need to set a singal fire on the island. The boys use Piggy's glasses to light the fire up. Ralph choosed Jack to be in charge of the biguns (boys between ages of 10 and 12), his group is to provide meet for everyone.

Lord of the Flies was written by Golding's consideration of human evil causes, effects, and manifestations of evil. Jack is a good example of how easily human can turn into evil. He started out as a leader of a group then he turned into a dictator leading the boys into doing bad things. What changes him is when they humilate Jack after running down from the mountain after seeing the beast. He then run off into the jungle and ask the boy who wishes to join him can come. The biguns snuck away from Ralph's group and join Jack. After Simon discover out the truth about the beast and did not get a chance to tell the rest of the group, Jack's followers beat him up to death thinking they were playing a game of "hunting a pig." At the end of the book, Jack decided to get revenge on Ralph because he did not like Ralph and wanted a complete control over the boys. So he decided to burn the island and Navel Officer came to rescue them because after seeing the disaster of the island. The boys realize of what they have done.

I feel that the conflict of this book can happen to our modern world. It happened in World War II, when Hitler dicided to take control over Europe because of his desire for power like Jack did in the book. It's pretty terrifying, and I could never live if anything like this happened to me. I showed this book to some people, and they found it funny, and that made me think. How is this funny? It's not meant to make you laugh, and when I  heard that they thought it was stupid and funny, that was just sad to me. Not that I want to over think this but this book is what taught me a lot of things.