Lord of the Flies is a fictional book written by William Golding.
             At first Lord of the Flies appears to be a book written about nothing more than a bunch of kids that are stranded on an island, it however has much more meaning than that. In this book Golding wants to answer the question "does human instinct lean toward order and government or chaos and anarchy?" He does this by placing children stranded on an island. He then procedes to have them act in the manner in which he felt they would (I believe he did this accurately) given the situation. Through the use of many examples he clearly shows what he believes our nature is. When the children are trying to build huts on the beach they all helped for the first one, fewer for the second, and only Ralph and Simon worked on the last one. This shows that even though they know they need the shelter at night they choose to play instead. When the group is at castle rock and the "beast" comes out of the bushes it is beaten and stabbed to death only to discover it really Simon. Had the children stopped to look and not acted as a crazy mob this wouldn't have happened. When Ralph returns to castle rock he is met at spear point and chased and hunted down like a dog. All of the following examples indicate that in the lack of order and government the human nature turns to chaos and anarchy.
             Golding uses sensory information very well to deliver the idea and image of how this island must have looked to the children on it. There are many memorable events in this book. When they first landed he describes how the water in the lagoon looked so blue and green and still. The beach stretched as far as one could see with bright green palms inhabiting it. Another would be when Simon was hiding in the bushes and saw Jack impale the sow head upon the stick and leave it "as an offering to the beast". After Jack and the others left he begun to talk to the
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