The most dividing part of the boys relationship is fear. The group of boys who are stranded start out their adventure on the island forming a civil leadership. They decide to elect a leader to make rules and organize everyday order. The boys elect Ralph, as the story progresses the group starts to lean more towards as Jack as their leader. One reason for this is at the start of the story. When the littluns try to tell Ralph there is a beast, “Ralph laughed, and the other boys laughed with him.” (Golding22). But gradually Jack starts to join …show more content…
There are deaths, the death of Simon, and Piggy. During Lord of the Flies as the fear of the monster grows in the boys the side effect is more savagery. As the story progresses the boys turn more savage as the death of Simon later confirms. Jack tells the group "’I expect the beast disguised himself. Perhaps. We'd better keep on the right side of him, anyhow. You can't tell what he might do.’"(Golding127). As Simon discovers that the monster that they thought all along was real was actually the dead airman. He goes back to tell the boys that the monster is not but the dead airman. But is attacked beaten, stabbed, and kicked, then he rolls off the cliff. As his body floats off to see this symbolizes the innocence of the boys leaving the island as well. Continually throughout the story, the island makes the boys more and more brutal and