At the dawn of the next world war a plane crashes on an uncharted island stranding a group of schoolboys. At first with no adult supervision their freedom is something to celebrate; this far from civilization the boys can do anything they want. Anything. They attempt to forge their own society failing however in the face of terror sin and evil. And as order collapses as strange howls echo in the night as terror begins its reign the hope of adventure seems as far from reality as the hope of being rescued. Labeled a parable an allegory a myth a morality tale a parody a political treatise even a vision of the apocalypse Lord of the Flies is perhaps our most memorable novel about “the end of innocence the darkness of man’s heart.”