Lord of the Flies Essay William Golding’s Lord of the Flies is a story of young British schoolboys who become stranded on an island somewhere in the tropics. When the boys first arrive on the island, they follow the basic steps for survival that they have learned from watching adults in England. During the course of their stay they are unable to build an organized social system because they are too young to understand several things necessary to the complex inner workings of an organized society. When the boys arrive on the island, Ralph immediately calls the group to an assembly by blowing on a conch shell. “Immediately the thing sounded. A de