Anybody else think Jack is becoming increasingly like Jack the character from William Golding's book the Lord of the Flies.

For those who dont know the book a bunch of kids are washed ashore on an island after a plane crash ( i know, exactly like lost).

I can't remember whether it was in the book or just in the film but the pilot of the plane is found and dies shortly after arrival on the island (Like lost).

The kids try to keep alight a signal fire to attract rescue only to burn down a huge amount of the jungle. Boar hunting becomes a regular hunting activity as well and there are talks and rumours of a monster on the island just like in lost.

There is a power struggle for leadership between a kid called Jack and a kid called Ralph(Jack vs Locke)

Ralph seems to be like Locke who doesn't mind the island and wants to create a civilisation on the island until rescue comes.

Jack becomes power hungry and wants total leadership over everyone (Much like Jack Shepard has become on acount of he wants to kill all the others)

A few of the kids are killed during constant wars with each other including a rather large peacemaker kid nicknames Piggy (Hurley)

All the remaining kids are rescued when a rescue team arrives.

Could this be the basis of Lost as we know it?

Lord of the Flies is certainly a major influence on the show. Yes.

i agree with you on the reference! You're possibly right about Jack... but i disagree about Locke being Ralph... i think Locke is more Simon.

i agree with you on the reference! You're possibly right about Jack... but i disagree about Locke being Ralph... i think Locke is more Simon.

I agree...Simon was the mystic who communed with nature on the island and had visions....I think Ralph could be compared to Sayid.

Lord of the flies may have some influence but what that book represents is man's primal nature versus higher reason. So we have seen some of that in the form of Man of science vs Man of faith. But we won't see the total social disintegration of the Losties as happened in LOTF. Jack isn't gonna go "savage" and devalue anyone especially Hurley a la Piggy.