The Lord Of The Flies short true story

In Golding's novel, The Lord Of The Flies, a group of British children are stranded on a deserted island after an airplane crash.

They manage to create their own society with rules and jobs. They chose Ralph, one of the oldest boys, as their leader. Meetings take place every once in a while in which the presence of democracy is visible. Everyone has a say in the group decisions from the smallest to the oldest boy. They divide into two groups, the hunters and the workers, in order to run the camp in a more efficient way. In order to get rescued they light a fire on top of a cliff so it is visible to ships from a distance.

People would think that with all this planning and organization a society like this would be successful, but is it really successful? Adults might be unaware of this but children are capable of doing much more than what they think. Children are capable of doing evil and good. Unfortunately in this case the evil reigns the island and this whole society is shattered by its presence. Many things led to the failure of society on the island but it is the fear of the boys, their innocence, and the absence of authority in the island, which cause the breakdown of the society.Fear is one of the things that lead to the failure of the society in the island. It is the fear towards the "beastie", the fear of not getting rescued, and the fear of each other that damaged them.

When little everyone is afraid of many things, but there is always an adult to calm their fear. In this case there are no adults in the island; they just had each other. The "beastie" is an imaginary monster that lurks through the island waiting to kill them. The "beastie" is portrayed as many different things like a snake, a creature from the sea, and a monster in the mountain.

Little by little, fear is building up inside each of them. Jack's fear of the beast is expressed when he says, "If you're hunting sometimes... you can feel as if you're not hunting, but-being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle.

"(pg. 53). The "beastie" is the source of many conflicts between the boys. The "beastie" divides the group in two; the hunters want to hunt down the "beastie" while Ralph, Piggy and Simon do not believe in the "beastie". The boys are not able to think clearly with the thought of the "beastie" always present in their minds.

Piggy realizes the reality of the beast when he says, "I know there isn't no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn't no fear either... Unless-..

. Unless we get frightened of people. " (pg. 84). The fear towards not getting rescued is the cause of the loss of hope throughout the group.

This fear is not strongly demonstrated at first, but after the passing of the ship and the passing by of the days, it grew strong. This causes the boys to lose hope and once hope is lost nothing is left.They need motivation to survive in the island and to keep the society strong, but if this motivation were lost everything would tumble down. There is another kind of fear in he book; this fear is the fear of each other.

One clear example of this fear is Piggy's fright of Jack. When Piggy says, "I'm scared of him, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You boy yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe. "(pg. 3), Piggy shows that he fears that if Ralph would not protect him Jack would do something bad to him.

Many boys are afraid of Jack when he had his mask on. This fear creates tension between the boys and this made the society crash. Another important factor that leads to the sinking of the society is the boys' innocence. They are all young boys about the age of eleven and lower. They still do not know much about themselves much less about the world. They are considerably mature for their age but their innocence blinds them from the truth.

The boys thought that to make a society and to live with other unknown people is going to be easy, but they do not know what they are capable of doing. They never would have thought that their friends are capable of slaughtering each other. This innocence is a major cause of the failure of the society because they had no idea what they are getting themselves into, they are not prepare for what is coming. If they would have not been so innocent they would not have believe in the "beastie" and the fear of the "beastie" would be gone.Their innocence let many fears take over them.

Innocence brought ignorance to the boys because they do not know what is true and what is imaginary. Their innocence is an impediment for them to success in the island. After wards they know that things are going wrong but they do not realize that it was that was causing this. It was that they were not prepared to make their own society with rules; this is seen in the book when Ralph says, "Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well; we were happy.

And then- ... Then people started getting frightened. (pg. 82).

The boys are looking forward to play and have fun all day in the island like Ralph says in the book, "This is our island. It's a good island. Until the grown-ups come to fetch us we'll have fun. "(pg. 35), but what they are really going to face is the constant fear in them and the fight against themselves.

The boys are all alone in the island with no adults in it. This had a big effect on the failure of the society because the boys are lacking authority. The absence of authority is maybe the biggest cause of the society's fiasco.This is because with the presence of an adult on the island many of the fears would have been eliminate because there would be a sign of authority to protect them and to assure them everything would be ok.

The evil side of the boys would have not flourish if there were an adult on the island because they would have to behave themselves in front of adults. One clear example of the effect adults have on the children is when Roger is throwing rocks towards Henry but not hitting him because as it clearly states in the book, "...

there was a space around Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger's arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. " (pg.

62). The feud between Jack and Ralph would have never taken place because the chief would have been the adult. The children had to take care of themselves and they had to learn by the hard way but with an adult to direct them it would have been mush easier. No one would have gotten killed in the presence of an adult.The "beastie", or the tension between them would have not existed because the adult creates assurance in the children and it creates discipline on them. The system would have surely not failed if there were someone with experience and with education running it.

Many of the children knew that it would be different if adults were there. Many of them wished to have their parents there or at least someone that represented authority. It is clear that many things led to the failure of society on the island but it is the fear of the boys, their innocence, and the absence of authority in the island, which causes the breakdown of the society.The boy's innocence and ignorance was the factor that led to fear, it was as well the blindfold that did not let them see clearly. This whole story would have changed completely if an adult were present in the island. This journey was the end of the boys' innocence and the start of their adulthood, as Ralph realizes in the end, ".

.. Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of true...

"(pg. 202).