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

Ralph is chased onto the beach by Jack's tribe and finds the naval

their innocence and stray towards savagery when not around adult

absolutely no innocence. When Piggy and Ralph visit Castle Rock to get

back Piggy's glasses, Golding says: Roger, with a sense of delirious

officer, the na! rrator says, "A semi-circle of little boys, their bodies

important, to engage in trivial activities. Af ter one of the shelters

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