The book took place during the nuclear war in England. The airplane exploded and crashed 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 thought 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 signal fire on the island. In order to do that, the boys used Piggy's glasses to light the fire up. Ralph then chose Jack to be in charge of the biguns (boys between ages of 10 and 12), and the group is to provide meat 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 changed him was when they humiliated Jack after running down from the mountain after seeing the beast. He then runs off into the jungle and tells the boy who wishes to join him can come. The biguns snuck away from Ralph's group and joined Jack's. After Simon discovered 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 complete control over the boys. He decided to burn the island and Navel Officer came to rescue them because after seeing the disaster of the island.
I feel that the conflict of this book can happen to our modern world. It happened in World War II, when Hitler decided 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. In fact, this book is horrifying. It explains everything that is going on in the world, even today. I'm scared. Yes, a book made me scared, and not because the "beast" in the book. Mankind will do anything for power. They become blind once they see how much power exists in the world, and they are willing to do anything for it. Once this happens, prepare for tragedy and destruction. It will happen.
After reading this, I realized how easy it is for things to get messed up. Really anything, if you make the wrong choice, or do something bad, even if it's small, things will get ruined. Once a fight happens, especially between ones with power, I won't be surprise if it ends as an apocalypse. This book taught me what's really going on in the real world.
