What goes around comes around. William Golding's Lord of the Flies is a novel that portrays the outcome of people's powerful words. This story is about a group of boys who are stranded on an island and find out what it is really like to be alone. Throughout the time on the island, they go through many difficulties that they never would have examined under normal circumstances. In the end, the boys make decisions, which instigate them to take the lives of two of their companions. Repeatedly enforced is the concept that if given the opportunity people will humiliate others to gain an image.

When the boys first arrive on the island, Piggy convinces Ralph that they need to get an overall count of the boys stranded there. Showing his intelligence, Piggy begins to ramble about collecting everyone's name. Towards the beginning of the babbling, Ralph's attention was...