The main conflict in Lord of the Flies is one that each of us feel everyday. The conflict between being moral, being peaceful and living by the rules, or gain supremacy over a group by acting brutal. Most people in today's world possess good instincts due to laws, rules and regulations that are enforced by people in our society. But what happens when the leader of the civilization is you and there is no one there to control you? That is the case in Lord of the Flies the boys in the novel are forming "groups" good vs. bad. A percentage of the kids are drawn to being possessed by the evil and not living civilized and trying to get off the island. There was a lot of persuasion on the island, for example, Ralph made sure Piggy would always stay civil and be beside him the whole time, but Jack was persuading everyone that he was the new leader so they broke off into two separate "clans." Piggy asks the boys would it be better to kill like Indians or to have order and get rescued. The way the boys on the island dealt with it and the way I would deal with it are two totally different solutions.
Piggy had no brutal feelings and stayed good throughout the novel. At the very beginning everybody was civil but as the books progresses everybody, naturally starts to show their savage side besides Ralph, Piggy and Simon and a bunch of little kids. Piggy asks the boys which is better, to kill and be like Indians or to have order and be rescued. Of course his answer was a silent one, he was killed by a rock that was knocked down the mountain. When the boys went to Castle Rock they had to have been thinking of the consequences, but Piggy thought he could restore order and come to a truce with the tribe but his death shows his failure. At the beginning of the novel the answer would have definitely have order to get rescued, but natural instincts brought most of the boys into the mindset of brutal and violent was the way to live on the island.
