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While we pretend that our world is just and civilized, the mask of savagery beneath is thinly-veiled. At the end of the novel, the soldier that unwittingly rescues the Ralph and the boys is a savior in only one respect. He will just as soon go out to war and kill as many if not more than he has saved on the island. When he rescues the boys, he does not even realize that Jack and his gang are about to murder Ralph; he merely attributes it to boys playing games. So deluded is he in his impression of the situation that he does not even realize the pure savagery in front of him. And yet with war after war and tragedy after tragedy, we can’t see the savagery in our own “civilized”