Bad Decisions In Lord Of The Flies

Turning Bad Decisions Into Knowledge

Have you ever carried around your mistakes on your shoulders, or have you put them under your feet and used them as stepping stones? Sometimes bad decisions are used as burdens and kept in a box locked away. Our mistakes need to be unleashed from the box and used for growth, they should not deprive you from your success. Learning from your bad decisions is a fundamental part of life and leads to a better future. To come of age, one must take advantage of their faults and get over the guilt that comes with them. If one continues to ponder upon their past mistakes, it would be impossible to come of age. It is absolutely necessary that one has to get over their past to make way for developing in the future.

In order to move on and continue in life, one would need to learn and grow from the bad decisions. In The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the boys were curious about making a fire. They knew they were going to need to cook food, so they decide to try. Since they did not obtain any background information about fire, it ended up spreading and killed one of their own. If the boys were going to come of age, they would need to instead feeling remorseful, learn how to make a fire successfully. If the boys remain rueful they would not be able to come of age and thrive. The text demonstrates, “‘Then when you get here you build a bonfire that isn’t no use. Now you been and set the whole island on fire. Won’t we look funny if the whole island burns up? Cooked fruit, that’s what we’ll have to eat, and roast pork. And that’s nothing to laugh at! You said Ralph was chief and you don’t give him time to think. Then when he says something you rush off, like, like–’” (Golding 45). This excerpt proves when the boys look back at their mistakes, they cannot come of age unless they use the fire as a learning experience. As the boys discern that they need to be more careful making a fire, they put the past behind them and get to know eachother better. Instead of panicking over this mistake, the boys turn the experience into knowledge in order to come of age. Since the boys became ambulatory and put the

Therefore, they had more time to hold meetings and discuss more mature topics. Although, these meetings the boys held were very disorganized and got out of hand quickly. If they were going to come of age and learn from their mistakes, they would need a more organized democracy. The text explains, “‘And another thing. We can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have ’Hands up’ like at school.’ He held the conch before his face and