Flight Disaster Vs Lord Of The Flies

Survival of the Islands
A staggering statistic taken from the article "Fear of Flying" exhibits this statement "An average of 15 percent of accidents traceable to pilot error involved weather-related factors while only 5 percent of pilot errors could be linked to mechanical issues." Both plane crash stories included, connect through that quote quite closely, having one plane fail due to mechanical issues and the other go down due to weather. Throughout The Lord of Flies novel and the Andes Flight Disaster there were noticeable similarities and differences that made each survival story unique, yet some aspects duplicate.
During the early stages of both survival experiences there were two major objectives that the Andes plane crash survivors
Comparing vegetation on the Lord of the Flies island is ravishly filled with an extravagant amount of edible plants whereas the plant count on the Andes mountains was very minimal. In fact the article “The 1972 Andes Flight Disaster” states that the men were so hungry they resulted to extreme measures, “We tried to eat strips of leather torn from pieces of luggage, though we knew that the chemicals they’d been treated with would do us more harm than good.” This quote explains the scarce vegetation that the mountain provided for the team. Animal life on the island was sustained by pigs but the mountain on had a small amount of cows that were found by Parrado. The minuscule amount of meat on the mountain made the rugby team result to cannibalism within that two-month period. In addition to the savagery death roamed around the men and the boys. In the novel The Lord of the Flies two people die from one another attacking each other, Piggy and Simon were both victims of Jacks savage actions which resulted in a murder of the boys. In the duration of the Andes mountain stay the team ate the individuals who had passed from trauma. Both situations were serious in their own way and both locations had their similarities and differences. For example, in the novel The Lord of the Flies, Ralph gives a visual description of what the island looks like “The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air” (Golding 10). Personally, as I read the first couple of pages in the novel the idea seemed like a vacation island, with beaches, beautiful mountains, and this amazing rainforest, however, the Andes mountain seemed like a hell above ground. Whichever way you look at