In many novels chapter one introduces the characters and the setting. In William Golding's Lord of the Flies he not only introduces characters, settings, but also gives off clues to up coming events, by using the activities that the characters participaid in while in civilization. In the begging civilization is nothing big to the characters but a part of their normal life, there Golding gives off a clue, that laws, rules, policeman and schools are …showed first 75 words of 404 total…

…showed last 75 words of 404 total…of the beast grows it begins to seem more like a prison to those who are still in touch with reality. The island is much like earth; we are trapped on it just like the boys are on the island. To the boys it's as if war has destroyed civilization and they are the only survivors, just like us we think we are the only life in the galaxy and maybe we might be wrong.