In The Lord of the Flies, one of the themes is fear. The little boys are having nightmares and are overwhelmingly scared. “‘Last night I had a dream, a horrid dream, fighting with things. I was outside the shelter by myself, fighting with things, those twisty things in the trees’” (84). Phil, one of the littluns talked about what he dreamed that night. He thought he saw a beast in the trees, then another littlun, Percival, talked about how he saw the beast. All the talking about the beast make the littluns scared, or fearful, so Ralph tries to tell them the fear is non excit, because the beast isn’t real, but Jack says they are going to hunt and kill the beast. Later the boys start to argue and most of the boys leave Ralph. “‘Blow the conch,
