William Golding s Lord Of The Flies - 1381 Words

Transformation As people age, they generally tend to transform from young and oblivious children into wise and aware adults. A group of young boys arrived on the island as proper English schoolboys, but months later, they left as dirty, unkempt savages. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, an array of young school boys find themselves stranded on an island as a result of a plane crash during World War Two. With no adults, rules, and nothing holding them back, they are left to fend for themselves. In the beginning, the boys elect Ralph as chief, and begin to gradually become accustomed to the island. Near the middle, the boys begin to divide themselves. Jack Merridew, once an innocent choir boy, is now transforming himself and†¦show more content†¦At the beginning of Lord of the Flies, the rules of the conch are followed with deep reverence by most of the young, stranded boys. The rules are quite simple: a person can only talk if they have possession of the conch; those that do not have possession of the conch are not permitted to speak. As a result of the conch calling the boys together and it giving the survivors a democratic process for speaking, these simple rules bring order and democracy to an otherwise unrefined society. By the middle of the book, however, the conch has lost most, if not all, of its power to everyone besides Piggy and Ralph. They each believe that the conch alone has the power to hold the group together. If none of the boys follow the rules of the conch, then the hope of their survival is pointless. When Jack begins distancing himself from the rules of the conch and starts to only believe in hunting, Ralph realizes that if he blows the conch in an attempt to organize and the other survivors don’t respond, then all traces of the remaining civil behavior in the bots will be lost. After all, without a functional and organized society, they can begin their road to savagery. Near the end of Lord of the Flies, the conch has b een destroyed. While attempting to get Piggy’s glasses back after they had been stolen by Jack’s tribe, Piggy finds himself and the conch being struck down by a