The novel Lord of the Flies written by William Golding is a novel of the survival of a group of boys marooned on a tropical island. The island is deserted nothing but a large mountain surrounded by trees this leaves the boys to survive on their own with no outside help or any mature adults to lead the way, the group also has to deal with the younger boys around the age of six who take everything as a game, a hunting crisis and the group splitting into two rival groups. The boys are forced to survive the elements and to find shelter from Mother Nature. But because the boys vary in age, the camp becomes over whelmed with the little kids that don’t have the mature brain to act as part of the camp, they run around occasionally helping in the building of a better camp and signal fire. The little kids can be a hand full for the older boys aged around twelve years. They have a hard time controlling the little kids who would rather play than survive which has a big impact on the camp and the fun and games start to wriggle their way in to the group. The boys start to become less worried about building the camp and more on hunting for pigs which they see as a game. …show more content…
The fun and games aspects start to overtake the hunting experience and the boys start to celebrate the killing of the pigs by sticking the pig’s heads on spikes and reenacting their hunt using other boys as a pig. At this point it does not seem to have any effect on the group because they are already far down the path to savagery. The boys became more obsessed with the killing of the pigs and start to make their weapons more violent to take down the pigs as is evident when Jack says “I’ve got to get a barb on this spear!” The boys think of this as a fun game instead of