The major theme of this novel is about a world without adults. The isolated island with no
adults but only young boys had to be ruled by the boys themselves. The boys, having not enough experience and not knowing a lot about laws and cooperation, struggled in the world that has no rules to organize them. The place they were living was a mess, and they ended up killing each other to survive. The book contains the story of people dividing into several groups because there is no law to make them unify. People have different values and opinions so they sometimes fight over things they think is true. However they need to try to cooperate to live in same community although they have different perspectives. If they cannot help suppressing it, there is a law that prevent them fighting, or there are some position such as adults, wise people who help the people who have trouble with others. The world without adults in this story is the same case. Ralph wanted to unify the group of boys by holding an assembly with his conch, he knew how to make them cooperate, and had them tell their opinions to maintain their community peaceful and prevented them from being dangerous. However, I think, his effort didn’t work well because they didn’t have basic law in their community and because they didn’t have it, J
ack came out to rule the group by himself. I thought the world without rule was very dangerous and without law, we get ourselves into troubles. So if there is a community, there should be the law that maintains the place peaceful and safe. This is what the book tells about to us in 2007. I knew law was important, but I didn’t think that it would be so crucial in communities and it is what people, especially us, need to understand, because it will be us that will create out community to a better place.
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