Down, Down, Down to My English Cafe (Fourth Reading Assignment)

     Flight may signify freedom in most stories, but not all freedoms result in a better livelihood for those newly free people .  In William Golding's Lord of the Flies a group of young schoolboys become stranded on an adultless, uninhabited island after their plane is shot down.  As time passes on the island, the organization among the newly free boys breaks down and they slowly turn from civil to savage.
     Even though the plane flight and crash are only mentioned in the book, the plane's flight and fall may reinforce the point of a freedom gone bad as it may also foreshadow events to come in the story.  The flight of the boys is their freedom from adults and the restrictions that having adults around brings such as etiquette and respecting each other.  However, without adults who is to guard the young boys' innocence?  Similar to the plane crash a "fall" comes shortly after their flight.  Without any adults, there is no one to restrict or check the dark primal urges all the boys have deep in their hearts.  Soon the boys fall from grace as most become savage (examples would be physically hurting the "littluns" and even killing other boys).