Lord of the Flies is Conditioning Children to Become Murderers Do you believe yourself to be so weak that if no one was there to hold your hand you would immediately become a murderer and a savage? William Golding seems to think so, as evidenced by his novel Lord of the Flies, an anarchistic tale in which innocent little boys inexplicably become vicious little murderers and animal abusers when abandoned on an uninhabited island. Golding relentlessly pushes the idea that without a government ruling over our heads, we would all devolve into amoral monsters with no hope of salvation. Now, believe me, I love books. There has never been a bigger lover of books than I. But this book has got to go. Firstly, in this heathen book, the little boy
