The Lord Of The Flies Critical Analysis

Children like to rough house. They wrestle and play other games that sometimes get out of hand and this often causes accidents were the children get hurt. In The Lord Of The Flies written by William Golding an airliner full of children crash landed on a deserted island. Golding writes about how he believes a group of children would survive. The children get along seemingly okay at first but it 's not long before the law, order, and all other existence of civilization disappear on the children 's island. In the end the entire island is set aflame, catching the attention of a passing by ship. A soldier comes to the island to investigate and to his surprise is confronted by the boys. No longer seen as warriors with war paint and weapons they were seen by the sailor as boys playing games with sticks covered in mud. The boys are …show more content…
William Golding uses a third person omniscient point of view to help develop his theme. It 's written from the perspective of a little boy probably the same age as the ones trapped on the island. Not a boy on the island either but one detached from above. This helps show us how the boys are feeling about each other and how they are perceiving the events on the island. We know that Ralph was good friends with Piggy on the island but it wouldn 't seem that much better if the story was written from a different point of view. Even though Ralph may have teased Piggy at times piggy was truly a friend and even died fighting with Ralph over the Conch. The point of view changes at the end of the story to an adults third person omniscient point of view. “A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all." Just a few paragraphs previously the author described the boys as savages with war paint and deadly