The presentation of the island itselfI think that William Golding chose to strand the boys on an island because on an island they are by themselves and no other people

advantage of this matter they do what they wish. After such events violence takes place in the story. On the island they eventually forget how it is your meant to act in a normal environment, so even after using violence not all the characters realise how serious their actions are. It’s not until it’s done that the other characters realise its wrong. Therefore the atmosphere is always very tense once the children witness the brutality of their fellow survivors. Once Ralph is no longer in control of the entire group he forms a ‘tribe’ of the fellow friends who do what he wants and agree with his ideas and actions, The others (the rest of the group) now become their ‘enemies’. With a situatuation like this nothing gets kept under control and that’s when people get hurt. The island is not landscaped and everything seems to be hidden I recognised this when the fellow children started chasing one of the boys. Also in this scene they set the island on fire so there’s a lot of smoke and he cannot tell where he is going which makes it even more harder to find his way. Through the story they treat the island as their home and give parts of the island names. They make those places to do certain things such as make a fire and go to the toilet. This was very mature of them at first but through the story these things start to get ignored and are not set straight. This is why I think things were not kept under control. If they were to stick together and work together in a mature and sensible way then there was more chance of good health and survival. The murder of one of the boys was led to due to an argument between the group; also if they would have dealt with this in more mature way then it would not have happened. As soon as I heard the first chapter of this story I knew that this was how it was going to turn out because a group of young males on an island with the responsibility of looking after themselves would not work out. And at the end of the story when the sailors find the children, without the guidance of them they would not have been able to get home then. That’s why Golding made it so that it was children and no adults because things would have got sorted out too quickly if there were adults there, there would have been no story. Overall I think that the story was quite good but could have been made better in some cases. Such as the way they acted with each other was not totally realistic in some scenes, e.g. the murder scene; in real life I think that they would not have had the reaction they had and not just have denied what they did as an ‘accident’. This blatantly shows that the boys eventually knew that what they had done was wrong but just didn’t want to admit to it so that when they got rescued they would not have got in trouble. Also because they didn’t want to admit it to themselves, because they’re only young.