Childhood In Lord Of The Flies

Childhood can be seen as a time of fun and innocence or it can also be a time of many problems and tribulations. In William Goldings Lord of the Flies, the characters are all young boys from a preppy like school which they have never had an experience where they have had to be alone and care for themselves. Being on a deserted island with no adults or supervision, the boys slowly start to turn more and more savage each day. The boys had some unity and order at first but as time went on the island tore them apart and turned them against each other. Ultimately, the characters being young school boys ends up affecting the plot, setting, and theme as the young boys begin to turn to savages and feel terror about not being saved, the beast, and also killing each other.
The setting is not so much changed by the characters; the charcaters are more changed by the setting. Given that the characters are all young boys they do not handle the situation of being deserted well. There were little events at first such as a struggle for power between Jack and Ralph, two main characters that feud over power, and Jack not killing the pig he had hunted. Throughout the book they turn more savage
The climax of the story is when Roger kills Piggy because this shows how much the boys have changed, and it created a big turn of events. When Piggy dies the conch also is crushed which resembled power throughout the book but once Piggy dies no one really has power anymore. Everyone has gone almost completely savage which adds to the mystery and kind of weirdness to the novel in a way that is intriguing because you have no clue where this could escalate to next. They started as sweet innocent boys that could barely kill a pig to now they are killing each other. The boys turning savage and doing evil things has a direct effect on the plot which changes rapidly due to the mystery of what the boys will do