Lord Of Th Eflies
...book is titled, "Lord of the flies" written by William Golding in the early 1950s in Salisbury England. It takes place in a deserted tropical island. Where the main protagonist is Ralph, a twelve-year-old English boy. This is a novel that explores themes about civilization and at the same time savagery. In the middle of world war II a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. There are no grownups in the island just the schoolboys by themselves. When Ralph and Piggy (who can be presented as Ralph's lieutenant) discover a conch shell on the beach, Piggy realizes that it could be used as horn to convoke the lost boys in the island. When Ralph had finished calling the boys, they set about electing a leader and devise a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as a leader, however jack longs for total power and is not happy with the decision. However Jack ignores him and appoints him to be in charge of the boys who will hunt food for the entire group.
Ralph, Jack and another boy named Simon, a shy, sensitive boy set off on an expedition to explore the island when they returned, Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. They decide the signal fire will be up on the mountain and later on the beach. They succeed in igniting some wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy's eyeglasses. However the boys were more interested in playing than monitoring fire and the flames rapidly engulfed the forest as a result a little boy disappears presumably having burned to death just because they...
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