The island itself is shaped like a boat, and in the opening scenes has the allure of a newly found paradise ("Lord of the Flies."). Ralph and the others now find themselves in an unknown but beautiful place. Before finding the shell, Ralph was swimming and having fun in the warm ocean waters. The island "can be a wonderful place, as the little ones discover during the day when they bathe in the lagoon pool or eat the fruit of the trees" ("Themes and constructions: Lord of the Flies") But immediately after turning on the first fire, transform the island, now half the island is razed to the ground showing what always becomes of humans; innocence goes away. At night the little ones scream in fear because they now know that the island is not perfect; It's a scary place. They get used to mirages "and ignore them, just as they ignored the miraculous, throbbing stars" ("On Lord of the Flies"). The beauty of the earthly paradise becomes stale in their eyes. In the end, when the boys hunt Ralph down, they set fire to the island again to try to get him out of hiding. They succeed, but the fire is now uncontrollable. It's spreading everywhere. Ironically, the fire saves them, as a passing ship notices and comes to help. But now the paradise of the past has become a fiery abyss of destruction; a life