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At first the marooned boys treat their predicament as an adventure: they elect the fair-minded Ralph as chief, use a conch shell to call assemblies, and dream of rescue. But as hunger, fear, and the rumor of a \"beast\" take hold, the fragile order they built begins to fracture.\n\nRalph's insistence on shelter, fire, and rules collides with Jack, whose hunters crave meat, ritual, and the thrill of power. The intellectual Piggy pleads for reason while the sensitive Simon glimpses a darker truth about the beast the others fear. Painted faces, chants, and a spear-sharpened savagery gradually replace the memory of civilization, until the island becomes a stage for real cruelty.\n\nWilliam Golding's 1954 debut is a spare, unsettling allegory about the thin membrane between order and barbarism, and about what human beings become when the structures that restrain them fall away. 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