Looking at the world today and wondering why there is so much violence, I asked myself how did it become so easy to be mean to people and to each other to the point of hurting people. I guess when I see violent things happen some things don’t bother me like they use to when I was younger. In this paper, I will be reviewing a few articles of violence including one from William Golding called, Why Boys Become Vicious, who is also the Author of The Lord of The Flies. I agree with the general opinion that male children suffer more psychologically from the absence of one or both parents and that given the right circumstance and inspiration most young boys have can and will commit unthinkable kinds of evil and violence. After all, it is in our nature. I have seen many of my friends who didn’t have fathers in the past that seemed a bit more wild and aggressive. Actually, I come from a similar situation. In the Article, The Crime That Shocked England, the Two 10-year-old boys that killed two-year-old James Bulger came from broken families without fathers.
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I think that when a father is not there, the boy tends to lean towards peers in the neighborhood and are influenced to do crazy things sometimes. In the article Sport Killings, a group of teens befriended a homeless man and then began to beat him until he was dead. ‘They took off to grab a bite at McDonalds” (CNN 2007). In this article, the teenager’s backgrounds were never mentioned, but it did say that one of the teens said, “That killing “the Bum” reminded him of playing violent video games.” Maybe it’s the music, TV, and video games that are de-sensitizing young males with graphic violence. In “The Lord of the Flies, while being stranded on a dessert island, the lack of adult male leadership and female nurturing caused division and violence to grow on all that were
I think that when a father is not there, the boy tends to lean towards peers in the neighborhood and are influenced to do crazy things sometimes. In the article Sport Killings, a group of teens befriended a homeless man and then began to beat him until he was dead. ‘They took off to grab a bite at McDonalds” (CNN 2007). In this article, the teenager’s backgrounds were never mentioned, but it did say that one of the teens said, “That killing “the Bum” reminded him of playing violent video games.” Maybe it’s the music, TV, and video games that are de-sensitizing young males with graphic violence. In “The Lord of the Flies, while being stranded on a dessert island, the lack of adult male leadership and female nurturing caused division and violence to grow on all that were