Seen throughout history, humans of all ages and sizes have been culprits of murder. Even children as young as the age of ten have been raised in neighborhoods that were so harrowing that homicide at that age was seen as a normality. In order to punish these young children that have sought to commit the acts of murder, new laws had to have been passed. One major law introduced was one passed by “…the Illinois Legislature...[who passed] a bill permitting 10-year-old children to be charged with murder and – as “super predators” – sent to maximum-security jails” (Text 1). Before laws like these were ever passed, authors such as William Golding portrayed the sadistic ways of humans that are even possessed by children of the ages of eight to twelve. In the novel known as The Lord of the Flies, Golding depicts a story “about a band of British schoolboys marooned on a jungle island. Without adults to keep them in check, the boys turn to blood lust and murder. A boy who tries to reason gets his skull split open when he is thrown from a cliff” (Text 1). Relating this novel to the realistic world, there have been many debates on whether or not Ralph from The Lord of the Flies should be processed, tried, and convicted for the crime of killing Simon.
