Lord of the Flies follows a group of boys’ disastrous attempts at self-government after they find themselves stranded on a desert island.
Golding himself has said he focused his book on only boys, and not only girls, for two reasons.
It is a great adventure story, real entertainment, but it has a lot of meaning embedded in it as well.
The first was that he was once a little boy, not a little girl, and the second was that a “a group of little boys are more like scaled down society than a group of little girls will be.