LOFT-Journal #2

If there were girls in the Lord of the Flies I think that it would have been a lot different, also it would have been way more complicated to write. At first I thought they could have kept the boys together and stayed at the shelters to take care of the little ones while the boys hunted or kept the fire going. They could have kept them civilized and help them stick to some rules/stay together. As the book went on they could have kept them as one tribe and from becoming like savages. But the more I thought about it I started thinking that if the boys were trying to impress the girls it could have been a potential conflict. Or if the girls went off to do there own thing or refused to help in certain ways that could have been important that would make the boys angry and become a problem. Also, they could have made certain friends and become anti-social to everyone else but those mew friends. So, I think the book could have gone either way, but that could only be determined by what kind of personalities William Golding gave them. It's a lot simpler with only boys to have to write about.