What Is The Importance Of Survival In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies was a book written by William Golding. The theme of the story is developing order among the survivors of a plane crash. In order to do that survival plays an important role, different strengths, such as physical, mental, and survival skills are traits that the characters demonstrate in this book. If they work together they can survive, if they don’t they will not survive. In the book you will meet many different characters and personalities, the most important characters are Piggy, Ralph, Jack, Roger, Simon, Sam and Eric. The student’s plane crashes in the pacific near an island, the students swim to the island but none of the adults survive the crash. When all the students arrived at the island …show more content…
Shortly after Simon goes out to try to find out what the beast really is, he stumbles upon the Lord of the Flies and gets sick. Lord of the flies is a pig’s head on a stick that jack killed for food . As he is stumbling down the mountain, he runs up on Jack's camp and they beat him to death thinking he is the beast. After realizing he's not the beast they push him out into the ocean as a instead of burying him. As he’s floating away glowing fish surround him. Since Simon has died only Piggy and Ralph are left in the original …show more content…
In the novel Golding tries to prove that we need different roles in our society for any progress to happen, but we have to use power in a good way not like the kids in Lord of the Flies. We need to let certain people have power over us and under us, and the rules of civilization can be very unclear and hard to get everyone to follow. Golding shows us this in the book by giving the boys power, power does not affect one person but many people. All in all, this book was good, not the best I have read, but one I am glad that I did. Over all I would rate this book at an eight and I would recommend this book to other