Theme Of Adolescence In Lord Of The Flies

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In William Golding’s, Lord of the Flies, adolescence is much more than just a group of boys stranded on an island. Adolescence and its portrayal play a huge role in the development of the novel. There are several factors that Golding uses to depict adolescence as something much different than times of grace and innocence.

For a child it is much easier to deal with things when you pretend they never happened. That is especially true when it comes to the boys on the island. The first we seen of this behavior was when the little boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark on his face disappeared during the first fire on top of the mountain at the end of chapter two. Upon his realization of this Piggy asked the other boys, “That little ‘un that
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