Everyone over the age of fifteen has suddenly disappeared and kids are the only ones left on Perdido Beach. Michael Grant, writer of Gone, tells the story through the eyes of Sam, an average boy, or that is what he wants people to think. Sam was sitting in class when his teacher poofed. One minute there and the next minute gone, no explanation, no warning, and he’s not the only one. Parents have disappeared, older siblings, grandparents, adults are gone and so are the rules. Grant tells a story of kids without adults just as William Golding did in Lord of the Flies. Golding and Grant both focused on the survival of children without adults, who keep the peace and enforce the rules. In both stories it starts off with everyone cooperating and
