The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is divided into three sections. The first part is when the kids arrive on the island and everything seems to be perfect. The next section of the book is when the dead paratroopers land on the island and all the laws and rules no longer seem to apply to the children. The final section of the book is the not-so-happy ending. The novel begins as if the children are in heaven, but soon the children lose all sense of what is right and end up devolving into complete moral anarchy, causing the novel to have an unhappy ending. The novel begins with a group of kids stranded on a tropical island. This is a perfect place for a group of kids to have fun. Children do not have adult supervision and do not have to worry about getting into trouble from adults. “When the children disembark they are delighted to find what there are no adults around” (Page 210, Forester). This shows that they don't care about getting into trouble, which will then come back to haunt them. The boys plan to have fun on the island and joke around. Ralph shows this several times in the first chapter by swimming in a lagoon and standing upside down. “Ralph lolled in the water” (11). All the boys seem happy to be together on the island and think they will be rescued soon. The children in the first section of the book still follow the laws and rules they had before. Jack "The Hunter" fails to kill a pig at the beginning of the book. "In his first confrontation with a pig, Jack fails, unable to plunge the knife into living flesh, unable to bear the sight of flowing blood, and unable to do so because he is not yet far enough away from the 'taboo of the old life'" ( 246, Mueller). This shows that kids still have morals. Another example of children who continue to follow the laws and rules of society is when "Roger throws stones at Henry, but shoots without hitting him because 'around the crouching child there was the protection of the parents, the school, the policemen and the law'" (238, Gregor).