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Lord of the Flies
Plot
After their plane crashes during a wartime evacuation, a group of British schoolboys aged six to twelve are abandoned on a lonely island.
Ralph is voted as the leader of the boys. Ralph's main goal is to keep a signal fire going on the mountain in the hopes of attracting the notice of passing ships and increasing their prospects of rescue.
Conflict arises between Ralph and Jack. Jack forms his own group of hunters and begins to neglect the responsibilities of maintaining the signal fire.
The boys' civilization erodes, and they descend further into savagery. They begin to worship a mythical beast, a manifestation of their own fear and inner darkness.
Simon has a hallucinatory encounter with the "Lord of the Flies," a pig's head on a stick that symbolizes the evil and darkness within mankind. The Lord of the Flies warns Simon about the true nature of humanity
When Simon finds that the alleged beast is actually a deceased parachutist, he hurries back to notify the guys of the reality. However, during a wild tribal dance, the lads misidentify Simon as the beast and brutally murder him
Ralph and Jack's disagreement gets more heated, and Ralph becomes the focus of Jack's tribe. They grab civilization's final relics, including Piggy's spectacles, which were used to light fires. When Piggy tries to reason with Jack's tribe, he is murdered
The novel ends with Ralph, still shaken by the events, weeping for the loss of innocence and the darkness he witnessed on the island
Theme
Identity
'Face paint' - takes the boys identity away (all their unmoral actions were not done by them, but by the 'savages')
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Characters
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Piggy
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Wears glasses, which becomes the indicator of humanity
Subject of the group's ridicule for his weight, asthma, and general lack of physical prowess or stamina, and for being from lower class
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Jack Merridew
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Jack favors hunting and its savage reward of meat over the civilized domesticity and hope for rescue that Ralph tries to maintain
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