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Lord of the Flies begins when a plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down over the Pacific Ocean during an atomic war. The pilot is killed, but many of the boys survive, deserted on an uninhabited island without adult supervision.
The boys discover food and fire.
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They craft tools and form political and social systems. However, their brutal instincts eventually devolve into savagery and violence. Their challenges for control demonstrate the struggles for power between democratic and authoritarian political systems.
• Ralph is the protagonist of the story and the elected leader of the boys.
He is a handsome, confident, and calm twelve year old. He represents the political and moral tradition of liberal democracy, trying to protect the group of boys from nature and their base instincts.
• Ralph’s friend, Piggy, is a pudgy and awkward asthmatic boy with glasses who shows keen intelligence.
Piggy detests physical labor, embodying intellectualism a