https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss How would modern children of their age work in this same environment? en-us 2022-05-16 14:51:04 UTC 2025-11-29 08:32:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f416.png ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2185892987 2022-05-16 15:05:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2185892987 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2187519126 William Golding was born in 1911 in Cornwall, England and attended Marlborough Grammar School and Oxford. He has worked as a schoolteacher, speaker, actor, sailor, and musician in addition to writing. His mother was a suffragette and his father was a teacher. He was raised with the intention of becoming a scientist, but he refused. He switched from Anglo-Saxon to English literature after two years at Oxford. He was at Oxford for five years. In 1935, he released a book of poetry. He joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and spent six years at sea. He was present for the D-Day invasion off the coast of France, and afterwards in the battle at the island of Walcheren. He returned to teaching after the war and began writing again. His debut work, Lord of the Flies, was released in 1954. He retired from teaching in 1962 and won the ‘Booker Prize’ for his novel Rites of Passage in 1980. William Golding passed away on June 19, 1993.]]> 2022-05-17 12:32:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2187519126 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2187856132 This painting speaks to me about the themes used in Lord of the Flies. The sense of hopelessness that the kids feel when they realize they are genuinely stranded on the island is well interpreted by this piece. The painting was created in 1831, long before Lord of the Flies. Applying my driving question to all different time periods is very interesting to me. How would kids in the 1800s react to the situation of being stranded? I think the piece perfectly encapsulates the despair and hopelessness the boys felt when they settle into the fact that they will most likely never see civilization ever again. The panic and fear that molds their minds over time is what drives them to do the crazy and horrific things they did in the novel. So how would the characters in this painting react to their situation in the 1830s?]]> 2022-05-17 15:38:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2187856132 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2191518815 The Post-World War 2 era in England was, at first, a major disaster in 1950. Britain's major cities were still bomb sites, it was almost impossible for many families to borrow money, rationing was harsher than ever, and there was a shortage of decent housing. However, within the next 3 years, everything changed. The economy began to boom, wages soared, unemployment almost disappeared, and everyday life became more comfortable. More supermarkets were being built every week and the overall quality of life was good for the people of England. In the Lord of the Flies, England is still at war, so the quality of life within the country is probably nothing like the golden age of the post-1953 era. As the kids are on a remote island, there is really no way to know how the setting within England affected them and how they made their decisions once they were stranded. However, my question involves putting kids their age in the same scenario, but in a different time period. In this case, the boys grew up during the height of World War 2, so most of them are probably more resilient to danger or violence. A good amount of the kids also grew up without much presence of their fathers, which could affect their choices on the island in any number of ways. For example, them being more independent or not conforming to rules as rigorously as kids with possibly stricter rules deriving from them having strong mother and father figures.]]> 2022-05-19 15:10:52 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2191518815 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193228943 This article mentions how chimpanzees are very aggressive towards each other, fighting all the time and sometimes to the point of lethality. As we are natural products of the ape species, people are making the claim that Humans are naturally aggressive and that war, murder, and bullying are inevitable. Agustín Fuentes mentions in this piece that there is no solid evidence of extreme aggressiveness and conflict in the human fossil or archaeological records until recently. Aggression seems to be related to the introduction of civilizations, agriculture, and social norms. individuals. So does any of this mean that modern children would be more or less aggressive towards each other on a remote island? Personally, I think violence has been shown in a new light in today's society. At least in the US, kids learn about slavery and World War 2 from the perspective that the boys in the novel never learned about. I think kids are taught from a young age to understand the true brutality of these horrible events. I think this teaches them to inherently be more sympathetic and kind to one another, at least to the point where they would murder one of their fellow kids for disagreeing with them and being an outcast.]]> 2022-05-20 16:13:23 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193228943 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193331900 This poem by Stephen Crane perfectly encapsulates how one would feel in the scenario of the boys on the island. If I were in one of their shoes, I would look around me and see the chaos ensuing between the groups of boys. The "sins" they commit toward one another are truly horrible and I don't think I could see myself or any child their age doing those sorts of things in the modern-day. I also like how he uses the high place as a setting for his piece. The novel describes (and is also shown in the movie) a high peak where they made their fire at the beginning of the novel. When reading this I imagine standing at the peak and looking down at all the boys fighting amongst themselves and lighting their surroundings on fire. For some of the boys, I'm sure they aren't truly violent and are merely joining Ralph in fear of being hurt themselves. From the point of view of one of the innocent boys who joined Ralph's group, looking down and seeing the chaos and realizing that the people responsible for this call you "comrade". I think any modern child would be one of those boys, looking down at the carnage and realizing that this just isn't how humans are supposed to work together. I think violence just wouldn't break out as rapidly as it does in the novel if this was a group of boys in the modern day.]]> 2022-05-20 17:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193331900 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193462170 This show took place in England with the first episodes being filmed in 2009. The experiment was essentially a house with cameras all throughout it and a camera crew following the kids all day, without speaking to them and only making any sort of contact for safety reasons. The boys stayed in the house for 5 days and were allowed to do anything they wanted. The behavior shown was not too out of the ordinary, with most of the kids just destroying the house and eating junk food until they were sick. While this environment is no remote island, I think putting the kids in this environment is the closest thing we have to a real Lord of the Flies scenario. There are some instances where the boys get into violent fights and they argue constantly, so while I do believe that modern children wouldn't be murdering each other and lighting their surroundings on fire like they do in the novel, They definitely aren't perfectly civil and do show their natural instincts as humans to fight with each other. Putting children in a space where they are free to make their own rules is a very interesting concept to me, and while I dont think the novel should actually be recreated by stranding real children on an island, this video is very appealing and I would highly recommend it to anyone. There is also a version with girls, and comparing the two groups also leads to many other observations between the differences in gender across children and how they work together.]]> 2022-05-20 19:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193462170 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193473097 America is by far the most divided country in the world in terms of political opinions. Both sides of the spectrum see the other as devils, and it is leading us down a path of social divide that would be very detrimental to everyone. George Washington was against the idea of political parties because he knew it would divide us and pull us away from one another. After the 2016 election, I can't help but agree with him. In my scenario of putting modern children on a remote island and observing the differences between the novel and reality, the place the kids come from is very important to the outcome. For starters, if the children were American, I think they would already be used to dividing into groups and steering clear of the other kids because of the subconscious instinct that they learned from their parents, I am a victim of this as well when your parents feed you their political opinions, you almost have no choice but to believe them and feel as if anyone who disagrees with them is not someone you should be interacting with. Hell, the kids might even group themselves based on their "political opinions", which would merely be a reflection of their parent's political ideologies. If the children were British, I don't think they would be as quick to form groups and oppose one another. Does this mean American kids would lead to more violent outcomes like the novel? I personally don't think so, but there isn't really a way for us to tell besides educated speculation. ]]> 2022-05-20 20:07:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2193473097 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198651764 2022-05-25 02:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198651764 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198655236 2022-05-25 02:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198655236 ahubler2022 https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198656396 2022-05-25 02:50:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ahubler2022/xevxxx0pcr8gn8ss/wish/2198656396