Class Discussion

       This week in class we have been talking about human nature. Honestly, when all of us were assigned the task of working together to survive, I expected a disaster. But we did good! We quickly set up some leaders and split into groups to do individual tasks.
     If we were to land on an island with just us ( and the all important 1st graders), I think one of two things would happen: We would survive or we would be thrown into complete craziness. According to our classroom trial we would survive because of our abilities to work together. The only problem is that a classroom is nothing like an island in the middle of an ocean. It is impossible to tell if we could pull though or if we would all rebel against each other. Something inside of us might snap, that snapping is human nature.
    As we discussed in class no one really knows exactly what human nature is, because it is the absence of culture and society. Some people think that deep down inside humans are good natured. Others think humans are all born sinners with wrong intentions. So, although we all had the right intention in class, what would the absence of society do to us? I think this is especially true in Lord of the Flies because all of the characters are 6-12 boys so there is less of their culture present in them.