In the novel 'Lord Of the Flies' by William Golding we see children acting like - children! - when adults are not around. Childhood is a long process of learning to act in a rational way to reach a 'successful' adulthood - some people never get there. Golding paints us a picture of where each boy is at now, and most of them really are still children (One or two might spring to mind that are reaching maturity of thought,foresight and responsibilty - can you think who they might be?)
So we see typical childish 'irrational' or 'just-for-fun ' acts :
- chucking a huge boulder over the edge to see it roll and smash
- grabbing a wild pig and attempting to kill it,untrained,with an usuitable knife.
- swimming and diving in dangerous waters which may have held sharp rocks or sharks
Some boys improve upon this, and some degenerate further from it.
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