Children Make Decisions In Lord Of The Flies

Children’s environment influences the way they make decisions. Children’s choices are influenced by the structure that adults give them. In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, a group of boys crash on a deserted island with no adults. The absence of structure they deal with leads them to make immoral decisions. When children lack something they normally thrive off of everything is bound to change. The environmental factors influence the savage behavior the boys display. Adolescents benefit from societal influence they receive on a daily basis. The boys on the island had no influence from their parents or guardians. The boys struggled with the fact they no longer had anyone to look for advice from. Jack, another boy on the island, questioned Ralph, “ ‘Isn’t there a man on this island’”(Golding, Lord 20). Jack asked this question knowing that not only were there no adults, but there were no rules. The boys started making decisions to benefit

The boys having no consequences as a result of their uncivilized actions only makes them feel stronger. It is like they are gaining control over everything surrounding them. The Stanford Prison Experiment, an experiment on what makes people do what they do, shows “the lack of controls to deal with the impulses of their lives, the lack of an operative consciousness”(qtd in Shuttleworth). The lack of control a situation is presented with makes people act out in inhumane ways. The boys knew what they were doing was wrong, but they had no one there to stop them. The boys needed to be held accountable for what they were doing. Roger, a boy on the island who commits savage actions, “led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones”(Golding 78). Roger not only committed these hateful actions, but he brought other boys with him to do so. This gave him power over the little boys he was terrorizing on the