Lord of the Flies by William Golding (3rd quater)

I am at the start of this book and am trying to refresh my memory a bit after reading it in 9th grade. At the beginning, a group of young boys end up on an island after their plan crashes. The first thing they realize once on the island is that their are no other adults with them. Some of them seem to be happy about that, while others feel that without adults, they will not be able to get off the island. Even at the very beginning, the boys quickly figure out that they must establish some kind of order in their mini society. One boy named Ralph finds a conch shell on the island. Throughout the book, this conch represents power. The boys later if you have something to say, you must be holding the conch shell and cannot just yell things out. This is their way of creating order in their society. Ralph, one of the older boys on the island, is also voted to be leader over all the other boys on the island. Some people are happy about this, while others are not and feel it is unfair that Ralph gets to be leader.