Importance of Resources in Lord of the Flies

The question as to why the boy’s attitudes changed so drastically is asked frequently asked when reading this book. The boy’s blatant attitudes changed for various reasons. First, was because of the lack of clothing. The boys were stranded on the island with no extra clothing whatsoever. Ralph and some of the boys even went around bare. This didn’t bother most of boys because “ He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.” During the book, when Jack decides to form his own group, there was no clothing to set them apart from Ralph’s group. Jack just h

With no adults around on the island very many tragedies occurred. First, everyone has always heard the saying from their parents “Don’t every play with fire.” With no adults around to remind them, the boys ended up burning a “littlun” and burning up the whole island! Also, there weren’t adults to tell them what fruit was good to eat and which water was good to drink. Most of the boys probably became sick from this. If there had been adults around there wouldn’t have been much fighting, killing, and hatred among the boys.

Food was a very important factor in this story. They had no food when they crashed and they were forced to eat berries for quite some time. This was one of the reasons why the island was so dirty. It is know that fruit cleanses out your system faster than most foods, and since the boys ate so much fruit a day, the island started to have a stench, attracted all kinds of bugs, and became very dirty. Lack of food even led to hunting. (One of the main factors in the novel.) The boys were getting

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