Lord of the Flies chapter 1

In Chapter 1of Lord of the Flies, Piggie and Ralph find each other on a deserted island.  They had crashed on a plane filled with other kids.  They knew all the adults were dead, but didn't know about the rest of the kids.  They find a shell and try to call other survivors to them.  It works.  The other survivors all come to the beach, and they elect a leader.  Ralph is elected and him and two other boys go to explore the area and see if they are actually on an island.  They find they are, and on their way back, the find a pig, but don't have the heart of kill it.  They return with no food only information that they are on an island.

I think that the fact that a boy's name is Piggie, and in the first chapter there is a pig that they almost killed foreshadows a death.  Piggie will probably die.  I think that Jack will kill him.  When Jack says that next time there will be no mercy towards a pig, I think it foreshadows Jack killing Piggie for food when they are desperate.

I think that at first, the boys will have fun playing survivor, but once they start to face the challenges the island throws at them, they will realize that it is not as much fun as it seems.  All the boys seem to think that they will only be there for a few days, and that it won't be to hard to play survivor for those days.  I think that they will end up being stuck on the island for weeks and maybe even months.  The fact that they don't realize this shows that the book is written in 3rd person omniscient because the reader doesn't really know any more than the characters know.  I am only making logical guesses.

I think that this will turn out to be a very good book with a good lesson tied into it.  The author seems to be a "survival of the fittest" type of person rather than a "everyone helps everyone to survive" type of person.  This will influence the outcome of the book, which will most likely result in the death of a loved character.