Lord Of The Flies Save Analysis

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Saved by the Naval Officer
Unlike every Nicholas Sparks book,not every book ends with a happily ever afters and every problem resolved. In William Golding's book, Lord of the Flies, he left plenty of unresolved conflicts. Which holds the reader at the end of their seat wondering why he ended the book the way he did. Or why was it so abrupt, with so many unanswered conflicts.
William Golding, was a fairly big mastermind when it came to this book. While the book was fairly great, all of the things I wanted to know as a reader were left unanswered and left me very curious. Golding, leaves the book with Jack and his savages trying to kill Ralph, but then Ralph runs into the naval officer and is saved. Which makes me wonder what would've happened in that moment if the officer hadn't of showed up? Although it was a very relieving to know the boys would be saved, but still bothers me because there is so much left undone due to that scene. Jack and his blood thirsty savages were out for Ralph's head, so would he have been killed if there were no interferences? Or would they have stopped and realized they were going crazy and the island was going to be burned down.
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Like when the naval officer said "Nobody killed, I hope? Any dead bodies?" Ralph said there were only two people that were dead, when in reality there were 3. Pondering upon whether or not the boys knew that the boy with the mulberry birthmark had been dead that whole time, had really made me sad because they just forget about him and didn't bother searching for him. Also then of course there were the obvious murders of both Simon, and Piggy, that the boys automatically remember. Which are the two deaths Ralph automatically told the naval officer

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