"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all we're not savages." Discuss Jack's statement in Chapter Two in the light of the events of Chapters One to Five of Lord of the Flies."

"Lord of the flies" began with a plane crashing on an uninhabited island. We are not told the reason for this, but we can assume the crash was a result of events associated with World War II. The most likely scenario being the survivors are evacuees. The survivors of the crash are a group of boys who we know little about prior to the crash. The group of boys then attempt to create a functional society by using a system of rules and a chief. The story then revolves around the breakdown of the boys" society.

The island is ultimately a natural environment "untamed by man" that holds the resources for the boys" survival parallel to other life on the island. Golding tries to convey the island like a cage confining the boys and isolating them from the rest of the world. We are told in the story that "no boy could reach even the reef over the stretch of water." This shows us that the reef is like a boundary that cannot be crossed by any inhabitant on the island. A major factor stopping the...