How could chapter 1 of Lord of The Flies sound more interesting?

I don't like re-writing literature. Nor do I like it when Hollywood takes the liberty of adding, subtracting, or rearranging events when interpreting literary works to film.

Of course, whether I like it or not, it's done all the time. It's as if the original author didn't think it all out first and didn't have very specific reasons for presenting his story exactly the way he did. I mean, who are we to presume?

OK, now that I've given you my sincere disclaimer, I will tell you how the of  "Lord of the Flies" might have been written differently to make it more "interesting," or more involving, or a bit easier to grasp. Perhaps the novel could have started with the plane crash.

Now, a crash that landed all of the boys intact on the island could not have been a very violent one, but just a glimpse of the struggling pilot and the hurtling plane, partly in flames, and the frightened boys spilling out of it and scrambling for safety, while the cabin etched the scar, might have all been instructive and exciting. It is all described on page eight, and what I'm suggesting is that perhaps it could have been an alternate starting point:

“That pilot.”

The fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth.

“He must have flown off after he dropped us. He couldn’t land here. Not in a place with wheels.”

“We was attacked!”

“He’ll be back all right.”

The fat boy shook his head.

“When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows. I saw the other part of the plane. There were flames coming out of it.”

He looked up and down the scar.

“And this is what the cabin done.”

The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk. For a moment he looked interested.

“What happened to it?” he asked. “Where’s it got to now?”

“That storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn’t half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling.

Not much of a change really, but a different and perhaps more direct way to show what happened from the beginning rather than to relate it later.

Again, as I said before, Golding had a very good reason not to start his story that way, and we should respect his choices.