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Lord of the Flies is a novel by William Golding, set in World War 2, where a plane filled with English schoolboys crash-lands on a deserted tropical island. The boys remain on the island for a lengthy period and during that time, they are responsible for themselves. Instead of behaving in a civilized and mature manner, the boys eventually become amoral savages and lose all sense of rules and limits. In the early parts of the …

…goal in life is gratifying their senses as Jack was doing by killing animals. Other causes for savagery were the boys’ fear of the beast- which was actually their own fear and the rivalry for leadership which flares up so much that Jack is driven to kill Ralph. All of these factors contribute to making these civilized English schoolboys descend into amoral howling savages. By Sanchi Turki, Grade 9 at Normanhurst Boys High School, Sydney, Australia.