Life Without Adults

Most kids think that life without adults would mean a lot of freedom and fun, but the truth is that it would lead to a lot of bad outcomes and consequences. Young children don’t have enough wisdom or knowledge as an older adult with maturity would. Adults are more organized and responsible than most average, ordinary kids these days. Small children would need a lot more supervision to help them stay safe and sound. The world would become a huge disaster without any adults to care and protect for the little or older ones. Older people have more experience, wisdom, and knowledge than most juveniles in the world. In Lord of the Flies, when the boys are stranded on an island because their plane crashed, Jack thinks that it’s more important to kill pigs to eat. Meanwhile, Ralph thinks that it’s more important to light fire that would produce a lot of smoke so they can get rescued. An adult would think as Ralph and would enforce the rules, but unfortunately the boys follow Jack and not Ralph. If a nearby passing ship rescued the boys by making the smoke signal, they wouldn’t even need to kill the pig and roast it. All the boys follow Jack because they’re scared to contradict him and they want to have fun and not work since they’re just kids. Adults would have a better knowledge on what to do in this situation of being stuck on an island. A grownup can organize the government and day-to-day living easily. In the novel, most of the little kids that are boys go off and do whatever they want such as playing in the sand or in the water. They’re actually supposed to be building shelters with Ralph or hunting with Jack. If an adult were on the island with them, he or she would organize a neat schedule of when they should eat, play, build shelter, sleep, and build a fire. The kids decide to choose who should be the leader until they are rescued and they end up choosing a leader with a nice appearance, but with not that much knowledge of the wilderness. Most kids tend to follow one another and this is how it causes a bunch of consequences that happen later in Lord of the Flies. Small children need an adult or an older person with more experience to help them stay safe, healthy, and cared for. Without a grownup to care for children, the children would most likely die on their own of starvation, loneliness, and dehydration. In the novel called Lord of the Flies, the little ones aren’t taken care of well. The older kids don’t even bother to count how many there are or even learn their names. The little ones also get to eat as much fruit as they want which leads to bad digestion and since they’re like goldfish that eat as much as they want but have no limit to stop, they end up having stomachaches, etc. Adults keep little kids safe from bullies that make fun or tease or mistreat other kids and from dangerous places or creatures. In the novel, Roger throws stones near Henry, one of the little ones and its only a matter of time before he realizes that no one can stop him against hurting people for real. Adults do a great job at watching out for little children and it shouldn’t be taken for granted. In conclusion, adults are a very important aspect in children’s lives, no matter how old they can be. Grownups have a lot more experience, knowledge, wisdom, and would know what to do in any situation that presents them than most kids. Children aren’t as organized or responsible as an adult would be since kids only focus on having fun with friends and playing games. Little ones would die by themselves if adults randomly disappeared off the face of Earth because older kids are more selfish and would rather to take care of themselves and not them. Young people think that life without adults may seem like a lot of fun for a little bit such as a day to a week, but not for any longer.