Historical Context

Historical Context
The book tells us that the they are in some kind of war. Most of the kids were studants at a school, while others arrive as a musical choir with a leader who dies on inpact. Most of the kids besids the boys in the music group appear to have never seen one another before. later in the book they are moving in to savegry. They crashed and were left to themselves in a obanded island, far from any place were they get help.

The theme is the way people survive on a island and how they make living by rules, peacefully and in harmony, and toward the will to power. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions.