Competence Awakens the beast within

Lost, lost at sea, lost in their own minds, lost even in their own bodies; a group of young boys evacuated from London, England(due to a nuclear war) are faced with a dilemma when their plane crashes leaving them stranded on a tropical paradise with no parents and no rules. They have only the call of the wilderness to respond to. As reality creeps in, the tropical paradise becomes an isolated island. The boys must work together to fight fear off the island which in the end, takes a turn for the worst. Will they be able to cope? Or will they fend for themselves even if it means disregarding the domesticated way of living. The events that had taken place capture the loss of civility and building savagery among the desolate-looking but competent young boys.
In the beginning, a group of young boys are brought together by a foreign object; a conch. For example Jack did this “He laid the conch against his lips, took a deep breath band blew once more” (17). This conch symbolizes many things as the story progresses and decays; it is authentically the structure of this story and helps the boys form a mini-civilization known and familiar to them. These boys, who had no recollection of the crash they were involved in and who were complete strangers with the exception of the choir boys, came together by the sound of the conch. It exemplifies harmony, the desire for organization, for rules, for a civil way of living and merely for comfort and something known to them. These boys only know one way of living and that’s with rules; the conch acts as structure and kind of like the government body within the island. They even had a democratic vote to determine who was fit to be leader, and Ralph was chosen. With this, they were able to conduct a similar way of living the way they had before. The boys made huts, built fires, and had different groups to look after each task. The turning point in which they boys had conflict is when Jack, who was in charge of the fire (chief of