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What Are The Boys'savage And Immoral Behavior In Lord Of The Flies

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The Biology of the Brain The boys’ savage and immoral behavior should be blamed on biology. When the plane crashed, the boys’ brains were not fully developed to live on their own. Eventually they all had an emotional breakdown. In the “Lord of the Flies’, by William Golding, he writes about characters who get stranded on an island and have an emotional breakdown. The setting is on island. There’s a forest on the island. The main characters are Ralph and Jack. They don’t get along because they both want dominance. Conflicts occur in the novel when Jack decides to create his own group and turn them away from each other. They begin killing each other because they think on one’s going to rescue them The first reason I think that the boys’ savage and immoral behavior is based on biology is because in the article “The Teenage Brain”, when kids push the limit on things, that process helps prepare them to confront the world on their own. “As a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, Luna …show more content…

Everyone needed an adult to set things straight. They all went and did their own things and became crazy because they forgot where they came from. There were little kids, including the older ones, on the island who still needed adults to teach them right from wrong and without that, they had an emotional breakdown. The prison experiment was to show you how far people can go under cruel circumstances. Even though they both had very different settings, their brains were trying to tell them that it wasn’t right and that they needed to find a way out. Jack thought his only way out was to kill and he was willing to do just

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