The story is about a group of English schoolboys who are plane-wrecked on a
deserted island. At first, the stranded boys cooperate, attempting to gather
food, make shelters, and maintain signal fires. Later Ralph, he started to act
up and boss people around thinking he’s the king of the island. Piggy, Ralph's
over weighted, sidekick who pretty much the only one that listens to Ralph. When
Ralph tries to order people around. The boys would rather swim, play, or hunt
the island's wild pig population. Soon Ralph's rules are being ignored or
don’t even notice Ralph existed. Ralph’s competition is Jack, the redheaded
leader of the pig hunters, who manages to lure away many of the boys to join
him. The situation changes when Ralph discovers that instead of being hunters,
he and Piggy have become the ones being hunted. The novel tells about
competition between two different groups and who will become the leader at the
end. Overall, the story was pretty good. However it was confusing to start, I
got used to reading it as I went along, which took a while. I like the style
when I got use to it. I think the writing really related to what were studying
in American History. It explains how society was made, it starts with people,
they make rules and form an economy, and there are leaders and followers, the
ones that think and ones that work. Like in US history, something happens and
society falls apart, like the great depression. It is interesting to see how a
group of boys can go from being so orderly to turn into competition against each
other. This has a lot of suspense in it, lots of detail, and didn’t feel like
some fairy tale. The book contained great amounts of violence to kids fighting
against each other. When I read the book, it made me think of the shootings that
happened lately. When the media said that the kids were influenced by violent
video games, music and Hitler to the shootings, I would say this book has the
same effect. The book is like the games and music. The only difference of the
book, it’s not visual and hands on. Of course words in a book can’t be the
same as watching TV. My experience reading the book and later watching the
movie, I felt I can absorb more detail and had a better understanding of it. I
would say the author is also talking about too much democracy. I think he is
trying to show, if a country ended up with people making up there own rules, it
would cause trouble. Like everyone wants to be a leader and the weaker one will
get picked on. Also it shows that kids can’t live by themselves. Kids need an
adult to settle the differences and give them rules to follow. Overall, it’s a
great book, short, lots of action and simple.