The book, Lord of the Flies, is a perfect example of what happens when a group of kids are placed into adult situations. The boys on the island were students used to rules and regulations. The plane crash that caused the boys to be on this island is the reason that the boys will now have to fend for themselves. Boys like Piggy and Ralph believe that rules are necessary in order to maintain civility. To do this they use the conch shell that was found on the island when they first arrived. They believe that the conch shell will be able to make the island somewhat civilized. This is explained by Ralph when he says "we can use it to call the others, we can have a meeting" (Golding 10). They believe that the island will become more civilized with the conch shell if only the person holding the conch shell can speak. However, unlike Ralph and Piggy, Jack and Roger believed in control and extreme force against others in order to rule. The behavior of Jack and Roger toward the littluns, Simon, and Piggy is just like Adolf Hitler during the Holocaust of World War Two. During the Holocaust, Hitler's' followers acted in immoral ways towards others. These followers did evil acts to the Jewish people. In the book, the hunters.
including Roger and Jack did terrible things to the boys. A good example of this is Roger rolling the boulder right off the top of the cliff in order to kill Piggy when Roger knew that! Piggy could not see without his glasses on. All individuals have a natural capacity for brutality or cruelty.
The boys show cruelty by doing their dance and in the process end up killing Simon. Simon is killed because the boys were so excited while doing their dance at the feast Jack was having. As Simon is being killed he is crying and in terrible pain but the hunters do not realize that. To prove the point that Simon was brutally killed the writer says, "the beast struggled forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water.
