Children all over the world hold many of the same characteristics. Most
             children are good at heart, but at times seem like little mischievous
             devils. Children enjoy having fun and causing trouble but under some
             supervision can be obedient little boys an d girls. Everybody, at one
             time in their lives, was a child and knows what it is like to have no
             worries at all. Children have their own interests and react to different
             things in peculiar and sometimes strange ways. For example, children are
             with Barney and his jolly, friendly appearance without realizing that he
             is actually a huge dinosaur. In the novel The Lord of the Flies, by
             William Golding, one can see how children react to certain situations.
             Children, when given the opportunity, wo uld choose to play and have fun
             rather than to do boring, hard work. Also, when children have no other
             adults to look up to they turn to other children for leadership. Finally,
             children stray towards savagery when they are w! ithout adult authority.
             Therefore, Golding succeeds in effectively portraying the interests and
             attitudes of young children in this novel.
             When children are given the opportunity, they would rather envelop
             themselves in pleasure and play than in the stresses of work. The boys
             show enmity towards building the shelters, even though this work is
             important, to engage in trivial activities. Af ter one of the shelters
             collapses while only Simon and Ralph are building it, Ralph clamours, "All
             day I've been working with Simon. No one else. They're off bathing or
             eating, or playing." (55). Ralph and Simon, though only children, are
             more mature a nd adult like and stray to work on the shelters, while the
             other children aimlessly run off and play. The other boys avidly choose
             to play, eat, etc. than to continue to work with Ralph which is very
             boring and uninteresting. The boys act typically of m ost children their
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