Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics.Most
children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous
devils.Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some
supervision can be obedient little boys an d girls.Everybody, at one
time in their lives, was a child and knows what it is like to have no
worries at all.Children have their own interests and react to different
things in peculiar and sometimes strange ways.For example, children are
with Barney and his jolly, friendly appearance without realizing that he
is actually a huge dinosaur.In the novel The Lord of the Flies, by
William Golding, one can see how children react to certain situations.
Children, when given the opportunity, wo uld choose to play and have fun
rather than to do boring, hard work.Also, when children have no other
adults to look up to they turn to other children for leadership.Finally,
children stray towards savagery when they are w! ithout adult authority.
Therefore, Golding succeeds in effectively portraying the interests and
attitudes of young children in this novel.
When children are given the opportunity, they would rather envelop
themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work.The boys
show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is
important, to engage in trivial activities.Af ter one of the shelters
collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamours, “All
day I’ve been working with Simon.No one else.They’re off bathing or
eating, or playing.” (55).Ralph and Simon, though only children, are
more mature a nd adult like and stray to work on the shelters, while the
other children aimlessly run off and play.The other boys avidly choose
to play, eat, etc. than to continue to work with Ralph which is very
boring and uninteresting.The boys act typically of m ost children their
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