Ladies?

If our author, William Golding, would've decided to include girls in the plot, there are many things he would've had to change. Most prominently, in my opinion, would be that the non-hunter group would've been a lot larger, because I have the feeling that girls may have kept the situation in line for longer, since they probably would've been less prone to resorting to violence, and hopefully could've talked some sense into some of the boys that joined the hunters. Also, he would have had to give all the girls names, and given them things to do on the island, whether it was doing things with the boys, or them having different jobs, or just creating a new tribe all together, possibly a tribe that knew they might never go home, whereas the hunters probably were unaware at times, but chose to stay because they liked the island and the freedom that comes with it.

9-10-10 Effects of the decisions made by Golding on the first page.

On the first page of the novel, William Golding makes the two major protagonists in the book, Piggy and Ralph, meet. By doing this, he introduces the plot, stating that two or more young boys are in this place without a way out, and their dialogue helps to explain the setting to us at the very end of the page. This makes the reader feel as if the scene were appearing right in front of them as the characters discover it, possibly trying to round up sympathy towards the two characters as soon as possible, since, besides Simon, these two are who suffer the most in the end.

Another decision William Golding makes on the first page is that when Ralph's socks were caught on something near the crash site when after he first spots Piggy, he swiftly bends down and pulls them off of whatever they were caught on. This hints to the reader early on that Ralph will be a very intuitive character, often quickly adjusting to his surroundings. This also foreshadows the fact that Ralph will very quickly become a leader among the boys, and will be one of the few that stick to their senses and try to get them rescued.