Chapter 7 Lord Of The Flies Analysis

In 1993, two ten year old boys from England murdered a two year old boy. In the hour before the ruthless murder where they beat him with stones, bricks, and metal, they intentionally lied to concerned civilians who approached the two boys as they dragged a screaming James Bulger down the sidewalk. They told the passersby that he was their younger brother. This murder happened over twenty years ago, but people are still looking for an answer as to why they did it. They did not know young James, and he did nothing to them. These two boys acted on a feeling of pure evil, and they know that. In the book “Lord Of the Flies”, William Golding explores some of these feelings through characters like Ralph and Jack, and helps support the idea that humans all are born with evil inside.
In chapter seven of “Lord Of the Flies”, after the boys barely miss killing a boar, they are
Schmidt, James Bulger, who was two years old, was murdered. It shocked the whole world, because nobody had ever heard of such young kids doing such evil acts. One thing that did not help their case is that as they walked down the street, dragging poor James the two and a half miles towards the railroad track where they would murder him, they lied to people who tried to intervene. According to paragraph ten of the article, “some passers-by did intervene on James's behalf, only to be told by the boys that James was either a younger brother or a lost child they were taking to a nearby police station. When one woman challenged that explanation, telling the boys they were walking away from the police station, one said they had been wrongly sent that way by someone else” These two boys knew what they were doing was wrong, and tried to hide it lying about it.They also pleaded not guilty to the charges of first degree murder, which also shows that they know what they did was wrong and evil. This, over anything, should prove that humans are born with evil