In this book one sees the boys themselves coming up with the idea of ¡¥The Coral Island.¡¦ We see Golding rewriting the earlier conventional stories, in which we see the boys acting in a very civilized manner. Golding thought differently to other novel writers, he thought that these stories weren` t showing human nature as it really is. He is trying to show us, the readers, that the boys can actually become savages. If one is to understand the message of this book one also has to understand that because the Europeans thought they were superior in the 19th century they thought they could colonize. Golding wrote this book at the peak of colonization, and was trying to show us that what the Europeans thought was all a myth and a lie, because there is an element of savagery in all of us.

In the beginning of the...