Adults In William Golding's Lord Of The Flies

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In all of cultures and society it is agreed that adults should provide the basic instruments of survival needs, such as food, water, and shelter. Beyond what should be provided for children parents should also commit to teach their children the difference between acceptable and unacceptable behaviours within society. Bearing this in mind, I will be exploring and, crucially, looking at detail to whether we can say that adults are deeply influencing children’s behaviour or, despite all of the good and intense parenting some children can just be born evil. To give me a booster within this investigation, I will be deeply reading Golding’s novel ‘Lord of the Flies’ which suggests that some children are born evil. Another thing that I will …show more content…

As well as all of the other children that are sold it just shows and proves the negativity within the misfortunate, effective poem. A quotation that Blake see’s effective is “God for his father” Blake uses personification to create an intense adjustment in the atmosphere as the child will now live which is not on earth and be given a better life away from the evil world. On the positive side this isn’t always negative and sad, but that it is a ticket to a life of freedom and happiness where they deserve to live in peace, and that their fathers who were selling their children was to help his other children. However, it could be argued that the fathers selling their children should not have done it and should think of other ways to be able to feed their young, also it could be argued that there wasn’t any evidence that he sold them to feed his other children, because maybe it was for the benefits of the father. To link this to another poem, ‘London’ Blake uses alcoholics to describe why they had no money and again linking it back to the poem ‘The Chimney Sweep’ the fathers could actually be selling their children for alcohol and not for the purpose of feeding and clothing his other