"Roger picked up a stone, and threw it at Henry-threw to miss. Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them...there was a space around Henry into which he dare n

What if today a natural disaster took place? Is civilized society all that keeps us together? This is what William Golding is trying to tell us. If an 11-year-old boy is able to guiltlessly slaughter, imagine what an adult would do. With no consequences or rules to hold anyone back, savagery would reign over the world. Children would in fact not throw balls or play games but throw rocks and torture others. The youth of tomorrow would be filled with poison and hate. With our horrific problems in today's age, how far are we from Goldings novel? Are we yet breaking down the barriers of civilization and leading ourselves into an age of savagery?

This obviously is unstable behavior from an 11-year-old boy. He has consciously taken a life; he has crossed a barrier that most people hope to never cross. He has committed murder; this is not the act of rock throwing. Roger didn't aim to miss; he aim

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