Along with feelings of despair, pleasure and fright, mankind is also programmed to feel a sense of vulnerability when there is a lack of security. In the novel, the author William Golding creates the fear during night time because there is a sense of vulnerability in the boys. The littluns show a vulnerability during the night when they have nightmares. Jack indicates that they get nightmares when he says, “You said they dream and cry out. Now they talk-not only the littluns, but my hunters sometimes -talk of a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal.”(Golding 89). This shows that not only the littluns but also some of the bigguns feel a sense of vulnerability at night since they have been getting repetitive nightmares solely based
