The Coral Island

In the year 1858 Robert Michael Ballantyne released a novel called The Coral Island, in the story, a small group of boys are stranded on an island in the Pacific Ocean and are left to survive with each other until eventually they fight their way back to a proper civilization. In the 1950’s an author named William Golding read that story and believed that that wouldn’t be what would happen to a group of boys with no adults, so he wrote his own take on the story in a novel called Lord of the Flies. In Lord of the Flies a group of boys are stranded on a lively island rich in the resources that they need to survive and because one of the boys has a father with some significance in the Navy, they also have a potential to be rescued quickly. The boys really have no concerns on the island except each other. This is where Golding’s story takes a turn for the worse. In his story some of the boys begin to turn on each other and fight leading to the eventual death of some boys and the ultimate destruction of the island. This ending happened because Golding had the fundamental belief that at every person’s core they are evil and that without civilization that evil comes to light. Throughout the story, the children lose their…

Lord of the Flies vs. The Coral Island William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies, and R.M. Ballantyne's novel, The Coral Island, are both very popular educational novels that have a similar plot, but are also different in some ways. Written in 1954, the novel, Lord of the Flies, is a story about children that are left stranded on an island after a plane crash. The life of the children starts off well. The children are able to find food, build shelters and maintain order. Eventually, many…

The Coral Island is a book that is filled with intense and vivid scenes that are always described in striking detail.The story begins with Ralph Rover, who is fifteen years old, and three other boys who become shipwrecked on the coral reef on an island in Polynesia. They had sailed from Britain onboard the Arrow. His two companions are Jack, who is eighteen, and Peterkin, who is thirteen. The boys are forced to live entirely on their own, cut off from any civilization. They provide themselves…

long while. This story is really similar with the other two stories, R. M. Ballantyne’ s the Coral Island and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe. In the three novels, the authors use the same setting - put their main characters on an island. The main character’s identities, their actions, their personalities, their attitudes towards the nature and their relationship to the nature response the reflection of the generation the novels happened. The Coral Island uses a “legend” to represent the United…

Ballantyne titled The Coral Island. It was such an inspiration that he chose to use the same character names of two of the boys that were in Ballantyne’s book as well as used a similar story line. Summarized by Feedbooks, The Coral Island was a story about three boys, Ralph (15), Jack (18), and Peterkin (14), that become shipwrecked on a deserted island that had plenty of resources for food to survive on allowing these boys to enjoy their adventure on the island. Although the beginning of…

what it might be like to get stranded on an island with your friends? Would you be able to take charge or vote for another to leader, get food and water and shelter, and get rescued; or would problems arise and complicate things? Well, getting stranded on an island is exactly what happened in Lord of the Flies by William Golding, but in this book problems arise pretty quickly. There is a constant struggle for power between the two main characters, Ralph and Jack, as well as other problems such…

different governments that have both succeeded and failed. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the boys are abandoned on an island and left to figure out how to govern and structure themselves. As the book progresses, we see organization and civilization fall apart. Golding uses Lord of the Flies as an allegory to show how humans regress to savagery without society’s rules, yet Golding’s minuscule test population makes the novel fail to actually demonstrate much of this. In reality,…

They derive from acknowledgement of often false information. As such information is spread, it is not uncommon for it to become twisted and exaggerated. This in turn can change a genuine event or reliable thought to something absolutely preposterous. Sometimes it is simply the lack of research that brings us to such conclusions. In thoughts of the story Lord of the Flies, Golding takes the plot of R. M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island and incorporates his experiences as a schoolteacher to…

Lord of the Flies, human nature is placed conspicuously in view as a group of British boys find themselves stranded alone on an island without any adults to supervise or lead them. The conflict between the human as a civilized entity and the human as an unsophisticated animal are represented by two of the main characters in the novel, Ralph and Jack, respectively. Being in their youth and thus not totally biased towards the workings of a civilized, adult world, Golding portrays what he…

The quality of life skyrocketed. This attitude is what Golding based the kids off of, the initial mindset of the boys greatly impacts their behaviour later in the text. As on page 61, where the boys, not used to the survival type lifestyle, struggle with island life as it contrasts so starkly to that of their daily life. The reigning Prime Minister at the time was the legendary Winston Churchill, his approval ratings are some of the highest in English history and his political platform was that…