Summary
In the middle of a war, a British plane crashes on an isolated island where there are only male survivors around their preadolescence stage. as the novel start to began two boys name Ralph (protagonist) and Piggy find a conch, which Ralph uses to bring all the boys together to one spot and Ralph was elected as elected as chief. throughout the novel, Ralph wanted to maintain as organized, have some fun, but most importantly get rescued but to get rescued Ralph started a fire signal with Piggy's glasses almost catching the whole island on fire and assigned Sam and Eric to take control of the fire. However, Jack (antagonist) began to organize his choir group to hunt for meat. Piggy becomes more of an outcast and a laugh of the jokes by the "biguns" (the older boys). While this is going in with the older boys many of the younger boys called the, "littluns" believes that the island is inhabited by monsters, referred to as "the Beast". Jack on the other hand promises to kill "the Beast", which makes Jack gain control, to summon all of his hunters to hunt down a wild pig including Sam and Eric, who's suppose to be in charge of the fire and as a result the fire ran out and a ship eventual approaches but passes because the fire signal ran out. The hunting of the pig eventually was the first success for the boys but Ralph was infuriated because that was the chance for them to be recused. After Sam and Eric reported seeing "the Beats" on top of the mountain, Ralph and Jack investigate, furthermore they encounter corpse and refer it to, "the beast" asleep. Jack takes hold of the conch, to set up the meeting but the meeting turns into splitting the children into two groups. Ralph group focuses on preserving the sign fire and Jack group focuses on hunting. However, Jack's group become more animalistic, by applying face painting on their faces while hunting. On the other hand Simon goes by himself to find the head of the pigs head on a stick with flies around it as the "Lord of the Flies" and he now believes that it is talking to him, disclosing the truth about itself, that the boy themselves created the beast and that the real beast was inside them all. Simon attempts to alert Jack's tribe, but is caught up in a ring during a primal dance. Simon is now mistaken for "the beast" in the darkness and Jack tribe kills him. However, Jack and Ralph tribe race to steal Piggy's glasses lense from his glasses because it was their only source to starting a fire. Ralph's tribe goes to Jack's tribe at Castle Rock to try to retrieve the glasses. In the confrontation, Roger drops a boulder, aiming at Piggy. Piggy was then struck by the boulder and flies through the air and falls 40-feet onto the rocks below by the sea and is killed. In addition,the conch was also smashed into pieces from the result of the boulder. Sam and Eric are then captured and tortured into joining Jack's tribe and Ralph was forced to flee. Finally, that following morning, Jack leads his tribe on a manhunt for Ralph However, the fire and smoke attract the attention of a nearby warship. Then a naval officer lands on the island near where was lying Ralph and his sudden appearance brings the children's fighting to an abrupt halt.