Lord of the Flies - 5 paragraph essay Question ÈçHow do defects in each of the main characters contribute to their slide from civilization Lord of the Flies is a novel written by William Golding. A plane full of English boys escaped Britain and their plane was shot down into a tropical island. As they are all marooned, the boys establish rules which are followed in the beginning but as they evolve on the island, all …showed first 75 words of 675 total…

…showed last 75 words of 675 total…civilization to savagery but the primary guilty party is Jack. He is no longer a civil child but a tyrant to many children. If the British navel officers would not have shown up, Jack would have turned many of the children against each other and the island would have been in panic and in horror of their futur. As long as there were no adults there, the boys would keep on sliding away from civilization.