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The Lord of the FliesThe adventure novel, The Lord of the Flies, was an heroic poem tale that visualisedthe different facets of the human spirit. It was written by William Golding inthe 1950s and recieved many awards. It was declared the "Outstanding Novel ofthe Year" by E.M. Forrester. The agent did in no wat mean for this story to bebiographical, scarcely Mr. Golding depicted well the many different aspect of humannature. The book has been exposit as "provacative, vivid and enthralling,"but Time and Tide said it topper when they wrote, It is not only a first-rateadventure story but a parable of our times."     The novel took place on an island probably someplace in the middle ofthe Atlantic. This can be inferred because of the fact that the male childs areBritish and that they arrived on the island by way of a plane cradsh. The story similarly occurred during wartime.     The story begins when a group of British bo ys crash on an derelictisland. In the beginning they area all unruly and unmorginized. Finally, a boyby the nakme of Ralph decides to take charge and call a meeting. The boysdeclare him chieftain and then begin to follow his lead. Ralph is also assistedby anformer(a)(prenominal) lad by the name of Piggy. The group of boys were catchting along delicatelyuntil shit Merridew, a boy who wanted to be chief instead, intractable to go his have way. He disobeyed Ralph and did things his own way. He was to preoccupiedwitdh his own whims to do the act that was most important on the island, whichwas to keep the sign up going so they could be rescued. Finally, gob wentagainst Ralph and declared that if any of the other boys wanted to have fun,which meant acting like savages, that they should follow him. The boys splot upinto 2 groups and then havoc insued. Jacks group went around hunting and be barbaric while the others tried to get rescued. In the end Jack hadgotten all the boys excep t Ralph to run around loke wild animals. Then whenJack got tired of dealing with Ralph, he convinced wveryone to try and kill him.By then however, a navy ship had come an they could never get around to thenasty deed.     There was more than one antagonist in the story, The Lord of the Flies.They were Ralph, Piggy, and all the other boys who tried to sustain order and law on the island. To begin with, Ralph was the first chief on the island.