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Imagine that you and a small group of people are stranded on a deserted island, with no more than the clothes on your back, and the ideas that you have obtained from your civilized life. Your every move becomes your means for survival. You endure so much pain, hardship, and change, that you no longer remember who you were or understand what you have become. As time progresses, you may abandon all of your civilized thoughts, morals, beliefs, and actions and you may do things that you may never had dreamed of, all for the sole purpose of survival. This is exactly what author William Golding thought while writing his novel Lord of the Flies. When a group of civilized boys are left alone on an uninhabited island, do not expect them to merrily live their lives there, with all of the morals that they were taught, expecting them to obey them, because time, along with the absence of adult order and society may cause them to lose their sense of identity and change them into different individuals. In the beginning of Lord of the Flies, all of the boys on the island were conditioned by society.
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