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Lord of the Flies is a fictional book written by William Golding. At first Lord of the Flies appears to be a book written about nothing more than a bunch of kids that are stranded on an island, it however has much more meaning than that. In this book Golding wants to answer the question “does human instinct lean toward order and government or chaos and anarchy?” He does this by placing children stranded on …

…alive.” There are also many times when the kids are disagreeing and there is some hint that they may split up. In the last chapter there is some too, the twins tell Ralph that Jack has sharpened a stick on both ends. At this point you think that Ralph may die and then as they run though the forest you become more convinced of it then bam, the adults are there and he doesn't die.