Suspense In Lord Of The Flies

The intensity and suspense in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is amazing; it is one of the most erratic books ever written. There is a plane full of boys that have evacuated their boarding school to avoid an atom bomb. The plane soon crash landed on a deserted island, and they are now left to fend for themselves. Throughout this book there are some similarities with the settlement of America and the type of situations that were encountered while establishing order in Lord of The Flies.
During the settlement of America there was a little misunderstanding about where the Europeans and Indians stood which can be related to when Jack and Ralph both wanted to be the main man that ran everything. When the Europeans came over to the Indians’

This is quite similar to when Jack had to get used to killing animals in the woods, because it was very new to him considering he is from a home, with a mom or dad that goes out and buys food from stores like normal. In The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History they say that the Natives struggled with getting used to new economic and social challenges, because that was new to them. (Wesson 6) In The Lord of the Flies Jack goes to kill a pig, and he could not do it and had to let the pig go. He did this because he was not used to doing something so different then what he usually does. “...Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm in the air. There came a pause...The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.” (Golding 31). All examples for my claim have been closely related to my book, and how the settlement of America and how they settled on the deserted island in my book are