Fear In Lord Of The Flies

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Fear makes us think something bad will happen, when we really don’t know what is going to happen. In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies a group of boy’s plane crashes on a deserted island during World War 2. With no adults that survived, the boys must learn how to live on the island themselves and not become savages. William Golding portrays through all the boys including, Ralph, Jack, Simon, Piggy, and Samneric, that fear is what motivates people to do bad things.
During the novel the boys start to get afraid when they hear about a “beastie.” This fear causes them to do many bad things. While the boys are all sitting together for a feast they see something emerge from the woods. They think it is the beast so all the boys start chanting, “Kill