To realize his purpose Golding patterned his book after a nineteenth century work on a related theme, R. M. Ballantyne's The Coral Island, whose three characters have the same names as some of the protagonists in Lord of the Flies. In this way, he thought, he could show that little had changed though much had changed in that century. (Spitz 22) He removed them from civil society and isolated them on a remote island. It was a beautiful paradise with an abundance of food, water, and the materials for shelter. He kept them below the age of overt sex. The island can be seen as a kind of Eden, uncorrupted and Eveless. The actions of the children

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