In the novel, Lord of the Flies, the author Golding says that there does not need to be an outside factor for evil. Evil is inside all of us in some form. It is not brought out because in our culture evil is not normal. Our social surrounding compress our need for savagery. In some way or another we all have that need for putting pain in others, even if it was just beating or killing a person or animal. In the novel Jack is the first to discover his internal savageness. As time goes by killing is his one priority. He tries to cover up his love by saying that the group of children needs meat. The truth is that he wants to hunt. The savage inside him that was pushed down by society, his parents, teachers and others is free to surface now.

No one suggested to him to hunt. He felt with no adults to put rules to keep them fucfrom having fun he may do whatever he pleases.

In the story there were no outside factors for the boys to rely on. With no cultural