The boys fall in an unmanned, tropical, coral island whose description by Golding is very detailed. The shore where boys stay and sleep is described to have a lot of palm trees making shadow on the ground and behind those trees is dark jungle and space formed by scar. The shore is white because of the coral reef and surf while the sea is dark blue. There are a high platform of pink granite soil and coarse grass on top of it. One of the other significant places would be the top of the mountain. When the three boys arrive at the top they discover a circular hollow filled with overflowing blue flowers. The flowers are strewn over all places on the top of the mountain.The island is described as a very beautiful and peaceful place like the setting of The Coral Island, a classic boys’romantic adventure story whose plot is exactly opposite to Lord of the Flies. While reading the first few chapters of Lord of the Flies, it is likely that a reader expects a happy ending. However, it is shocking that murder takes place in such a peaceful island forming a sharp contrast between the setting and the conflict.
Enormous natural power cleans up vicious things human have done, restoring the peaceful and beautiful setting. The crashed plane has been dragged out by the storm. The dead bodies of Simon and Piggy also have been removed by waves into sea. Humans destroy and nature cleans up, and this sequence continues, even at this moment. Would this alternating sequence lasts forever?
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