Childhood In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies
Lord of the flies is a book that tells a lot about childhood. The theme in this book reflects a lot about human values and why children are children and adults are adults in a sense of handling different situations. It's a conflict between humans and how humans react to having no rules. The book seems like it's teaching a lesson on behavior. The book it like what do people do if they have no leader.
One major theme is how kids react to a situation where they are alone with no adult or adults to lead them, tell them what to do and or tell them right from wrong. The kids get there own leader to lead them and young kids sometimes don't know right from wrong. So all the kids can be listening to someone who's wrong and they keep listening and doing what the leader says because …show more content…
Ralph is a smart kid with common sense so some of the smarter kids latch to him quickly. The kids in his group are what some kids at school call losers or are not liked from how they look for example Piggy who is made fun of because he's fat hints the nick name Piggy. So Nicks group who is considered "cooler" than Ralph's group, do not like Ralph or his group.
The conflict between the boys and their groups gets more and more out of hand and it shows what can happen when children have to take matters into their own hands at one point in the book piggy is killed by some of the other boys on Nicks group and of course that's wrong but the kids with no supervision which means the do stupid thing. The kids also have to answer their own questions for themselves because no other kid knows the answer and they can't ask an adult.
So the theme of lord of the flies is and learning lesson from what's right and what's wrong. Ralph represents what's right and Nick represents what's wrong. The moral of the story is to know who's leading you and to not always listen to someone and the answers they have to your questions because they can be
One major theme is how kids react to a situation where they are alone with no adult or adults to lead them, tell them what to do and or tell them right from wrong. The kids get there own leader to lead them and young kids sometimes don't know right from wrong. So all the kids can be listening to someone who's wrong and they keep listening and doing what the leader says because …show more content…
Ralph is a smart kid with common sense so some of the smarter kids latch to him quickly. The kids in his group are what some kids at school call losers or are not liked from how they look for example Piggy who is made fun of because he's fat hints the nick name Piggy. So Nicks group who is considered "cooler" than Ralph's group, do not like Ralph or his group.
The conflict between the boys and their groups gets more and more out of hand and it shows what can happen when children have to take matters into their own hands at one point in the book piggy is killed by some of the other boys on Nicks group and of course that's wrong but the kids with no supervision which means the do stupid thing. The kids also have to answer their own questions for themselves because no other kid knows the answer and they can't ask an adult.
So the theme of lord of the flies is and learning lesson from what's right and what's wrong. Ralph represents what's right and Nick represents what's wrong. The moral of the story is to know who's leading you and to not always listen to someone and the answers they have to your questions because they can be