the story itself takes place on an **olated **land.a plane has crashed,and it transpires that there are no adult survivors.two boys named ralph and piggy form the initial focus,as they begin to make sense of their new surroundings.the boys soon find a conch shell and piggy suggests that ralph uses the conch as a horn to call for any other survivors who might be nearby.the boys include"biguns"(several older children)and"littluns"(younger children),and rapidly divide into two camps headed by ralph,and another older boy named jack(the head of a choir group that also landed on the **land).ralph ** voted in charge and calls everyone together to work toward two common goals,the first being to h**e fun and the second to be rescued by creating a constant fire signal,to be lit using piggy's glasses.
for a time the boys work together towards building shelters,gathering food and water,and keeping the fire going.the one goal which constantly gets sidelined ** keeping the signal fire going as some of the boys,the hunters,led by jack,focus their energy on hunting the wild pigs on the **land.the children's belief in a beast on the **land also creates a problem.the children begin to split into two groups,based on the ex**tence of the beast.ralph attempts to d**prove the ex**tence of the beast while jack exploits the belief in the beast to encourage h** group of hunters.
jack soon forms a separate tribe from ralph's.jack gains defectors from ralph's tribe by prom**ing them meat,fun,and,most importantly,protection from the beast.jack's tribe gradually becomes s**age and they use face paint and focus mainly on hunting,while ralph's group focuses on keeping the fire going and getting rescued.simon,a part of ralph's tribe,sets off on a m**sion to investigate the mountain.while on h** way there,he find the pig's head on a stick jack put there earlier,and begins to hallucinate.he sees the head as"the lord of the flies,"and believes that it ** talking to him,telling him the truth,that they created the beast,and that the real beast was inside him,inside them all.he also finds the dead parachuter which had been m**taken for the beast.on h** return,he arrives at the peak of a tribal ritual at jack's tribe,and h** explanation goes unheard as he ** killed.jack's tribe then raid ralph's camp,attacking the non-hunters in order to steal piggy's glasses in order to make a cooking fire.
by th** time ralph's tribe cons**ts of just himself,piggy,and twins sam and eric.they all go to the rock fort of jack's tribe to try to get back piggy's glasses so he can see.in the ensuing confrontation piggy ** struck by a boulder thrown by roger knocking him off the cliff;he falls to h** death.the conch ** shattered into millions of pieces by the launched rock.eric and sam are captured and both become part of jack's tribe,le**ing ralph by himself.
in the final sequence of the book,jack and h** friend roger lead the tribe of 'hunters' on a hunt for ralph,intending to kill him.in order to do th** jack sets the entire **land on fire.the fire ** so large that it attracts the attention of a nearby warship which comes to the **land and rescues the boys.a n**y officer lands on the **land and h** sudden appearance brings the children's fighting to an abrupt halt.when learning of the boys' activities,the officer remarks that he would h**e expected better from brit**h boys.in the final scene of the book,ralph cries,in mourning for h** friend piggy,h** own loss of innocence,and h** newfound awareness of the darkness of human nature.
a hint of the author's intention can be found in the final description of the officer as he remains unaware of the importance of the events that h**e transpired,watching h** peacefully floating ship(representing civilization)that ** still described as far away.