"A plane crashes on a desert island. The only survivors are a group of school boys. At first they enjoy the their freedom and celebrate the absence of grown-ups. But the sense of disorder begins to affect them and irrational fears take over. The world of cricket, homework, classes and all the extracurricular activities in school seems to be a faraway dream against the more pressing reality of sheer survival-and the appearance of a terrifying beast who haunts their dreams. Violence takes over, the group is broken up into factions, each determined to wipe out the other. What Golding tries to show in the novel is that violence is built into our system, into our genes and in our blood, and that age has little to do when the innate violence would erupt."
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