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1^st Quarter Lord of the Flies

Synopsis

• Plane crashes into an island and leaves young boys stranded without any adults
• One of the boys finds a shell (conch) and blows into to rally up all the boys
• The boy who blows the conch (Ralph) is appointed leader
• A team of choir boys are appointed the hunters
• Explore the island
• Find a pig but Jack doesn't have the guts to kill it
• Make a signal fire
• One of the younger boys says he saw a monster
• They try to be build shelters and hunt but it doesn't work out too well

Character Introduction

Ralph – Protagonist, leader of the lost children, round character

Jack – Could be called the antagonist but also works with Ralph, bossy, dynamic character

Piggy – Ralph's assistant, nice boy, round character

Point of View

The story is written in third person. The author could have done this so he wouldn't have to revolve the story around one character and therefore giving deeper explanation to whats happening on the island instead of one character.

Setting

The story takes place on a deserted island where several young boys have been stranded on. They have to use the few resources on the island such as the spring, the pigs lurking around, and possibly even the creepy crawlies if they can kill one.

Notables on author's writing style

I think the writing isn't that realistic because by now those kids would be dead. Talking in literal terms; they haven't even killed a pig yet so I don't see how 15+ kids could survive a few weeks on an island living on fruit and a scarce amount of water. Plus they would be whining and crying every two seconds. Also, how would only kids and no adults survive a plane crash? Would it not be the other way around if you think about it?

Theme

At this point in the story the theme seems to be teamwork. If they hadn't appointed Ralph as leader they would be a mess by now and it would be an island with kids running around in a free-for-all. No wonder Jack couldn't kill a pig, his hunters abandoned him to go do something non-productive. Everything in the story revolves around teamwork or it should if a bunch of kids want to survive on an island.