1. The boys arrive on the island after their plane crashes during an evacuation from an area later destroyed by an atomic bomb.
2. Piggy finds the conch and Ralph blows it to summon everyone else on the Island. They are all young boys (between 6 and 12 years old), there are no females or adults.
3. The first meeting is held and the boys specify what is needed for them to survive on the island.
4. Ralph is elected leader (chief) through a democratic vote. It is also decided that the conch must be held in order to speak in meetings, the conch becomes a symbol of democracy.
5. Jack and his choir form the hunting party in order to hunt pigs for food.
6. Tension between Jack, the antagonist who only wants to hunt and kill, grows between Ralph, the protagonist who continues to believe that they must try and survive and try to get off of the island.
7. Talk of a "Beastie" forms on the island. A dead parachutist lands on the Island one night and Sam and Eric spot him and think he is 'the beast'.
8. Jack, sick of Ralph and the society he's created, forms a new tribe and most of the boys follow him. Jack proclaims himself new chief.
9. Jack and his hunters viciously kill a mother pig, cut off its head and leave it as a sacrifice for the "Beastie".
10. The Jack invites everyone who hasn't joined his tribe to a feast where they eat the pig.
11. Simon discovers that the best is not a creature, but the evil that is inside every human. However, when he goes to tell the boys this, he is murdered by all of the boys after being mistaken for the "Beastie" at the feast.
12. Samneric (Sam and Eric) are forced to join Jack.
13. Ralph and Jack fight
14. Piggy is killed by Roger
15. The conch is destroyed after is falls, symbolizing the end of civilization and democracy on the island.
16. Ralph is alone and Jacks tribe sets out to kill him as they did the pig. They set fire to the forest in order to drive Ralph out of his hiding place.
17. A Naval Officer arrives after seeing the smoke from the forest fire. Ralph and the others start to cry in front of the slightly embarrassed officer.
In lord of the flies, ben is a follower of jack...or a choir boy.
Lord of the Flies is narrated from a third person viewpioint.
The Lord Of the Flies itself to Simon
Lord of the Flies documents the progression of "innocent" boys into savagery.
Lord of the Fleas