The Lord of the Flies - the significance of the beginning and end?

Question

I have to state the siginificance of the beginning and end for an english project and I have basically no idea what it is.

Please & thank you.

Answer 1

The beginning - how did the children get on the island?
The plane transporting them was shot down over the tropical island where the novel takes place.
The main theme of the novel is civilization vs. savagery, the conflict between two competing impulses that exist within all human beings: the instinct to live by rules, act peacefully, follow moral commands, and value the good of the group against the instinct to gratify one’s immediate desires, act violently to obtain supremacy over others, and enforce one’s will. This conflict might be expressed in a number of ways: civilization vs. savagery, order vs. chaos, reason vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy, or the broader heading of good vs. evil. Throughout the novel, Golding associates the instinct of civilization with good and the instinct of savagery with evil.
The conflict between the two instincts is the driving force of the novel, explored through the dissolution of the young English boys’ civilized, moral, disciplined behavior as they accustom themselves to a wild, brutal, barbaric life in the jungle.

The irony is that, at the end of the novel, the boys are "rescued" by a military officer and will be taken back to a world at war. Just as "civilization" broke down on the island and the boys descended into savagery, so, too, in the outer, larger world, civilization has broken down.
The "rescue" is no rescue at all. The boys are simply exchanging a small savagery for a larger one.

Answer 2

Have you read the book?

The begining:
airplane crashed, a bunch of boys were stranded on an island with no adults to take care of them. They tried to establish a social law system among each other so that they can be civil when it come to decision making.

The midle:
Disputes erupted between Jack and Simon. Jack split off into the "hunters" group, while simon and piggy were the passive group.

The End:
Jack's group tried to hunt down Simon and piggy to kill them, setting the entire island on fire in the process.

The Significance:
The nature of humans is to be violent and volitile toward each other, even as young children. No mater how civil we try to be, there will always be those who thirst for blood. We will even destroy the very land that sustains us in an attempt to kill off others.
*This book was written around WWII by the way!

Answer 3

Think about the beginning. the kids came from a school with all kinds of rules. Think about the end. There were basically no rules or tribe rules. How is that significant when you take a group of kids out of society?

Answer 4

the Akashic records,
our free will, we chose our beginning to go through certain experiences and purpose, but our free will has one self confinement- how we tend to act and respond to situations over and again and the more we experience these the more we come to a end with purpose and spiritual growth from our own particular outlook, so everyones end is different than anothers.