Schoolboys vs. the IslandWhen your life is in danger and you are threatened, some of your human instincts will take over. In the next two paragraphs you will see how the island boys express their survival skills against nature, deal with their surroundings and how this reflects their character, and how they evolve and adapt to their isolated world. But perhaps above all, be a little lucky and be the best suited to the environment. Ultimately, you will do whatever it takes to survive. When you're in the wilderness, you do everything you can to survive. It's all about survival of the fittest. Especially if there are no rules like in the book. This shows a lot between Jack and Ralph. It seems quite obvious that Jack is better suited to survive in the natural environment. It adapts to hunting and killing to survive. He says of the hunt "We could steal one - paint our faces so they don't see - maybe surround them and then -" (Golding 54). Jack explains his plan to hunt meat to Ralph. The need for meat to survive was important to Jack. On the other hand Ralph says "They might have seen us. We might have gone home -" (Golding 70). Ralph is angry, Jack let the fire go out when a ship passed by. With the smoke, the ship may have seen them and taken them away from the island. This demonstrates Jack's ability to survive, the need to eat, versus Ralph's desire to return home to nature. Rogar is also very well suited to the natural world. He cares about himself and what is good for him. As during the confrontation when we read “Above, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, rested all his weight on the lever” (Golding 180). Roger does this to release the boulder towards Ralph, Piggy and Samneric. ...... middle of paper ...... island built, whether properly or not. The kids have adapted to their environment; they lived with the resources they could find on the island. I think as the book went on, each individual went their own way, due to nature and their own nature. "Man versus nature" is our theme; and although these kids managed to leave the island, not all of them did! Having said that, nature won, because man, i.e. the boys, were unable to keep themselves together and maintain their old civilized life. Life will throw all kinds of obstacles at you and you just have to be able to stay on the same path, whether that means finding a new trail or building your own. Never let anyone or anything make you do something you don't want to do, like Jack did. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in! Works Cited Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. New York: Penguin, 2006. Print.