This book is a deep, complex book that can be read at many levels. At say the fourth grade leve, it is merely an adventure story, but at the college level, it is a satire that grips the reader and illustrates the reality about human nature. The story is set during World War II, where a plane carrying young British children crashes on a remote island. The children initially try to organize themselves, as you would expect highly civilized, British children to do. But then, some of these children realize that they are in complete control, that there are no adults on the island to monitor what they are doing, and this is when the primitive humand nature starts to take over. They start with killing pigs and eating them half raw, blood dripping everywhere, and they end up killing three innocent children until they were rescued by none other than a cutter, which just goes to show the warring, disgusting, and primitive nature of humans that they have no control over. One of the best books I’ve ever read. Six Stars!