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Ashley LotoszynskiDarren Pagtakhan Social JusticeDecember 17, 2013Imaginary disquietude Teddy Roosevelt once said that, the only thing we lay down to fear is fear itself. Fear is a product of the absence of knowledge and thoughts that are blown out of proportion. As humans we are scared of the unknown and what it conceals from us. In the novel skipper of the Flies by William Golding, a group of children crash land on an unknown island without adults. As time passes, the kids become uneasy and try to seek console in their leaders. When their imagination takes over, the unknown soon ignites their fear and apprehension hinders the juveniles as they attempt to restore order. Since fear is fueled by imagination, the boys outward attempt to subdue it only results in violence and chaos. Because we are scared of what we do not know, we guess that the unknown can hurt us. In the beginning, the littluns become scared and call of a beastie. Piggy asks one of the littluns what he saw and reports that, he the littlun says he saw the beastie, the snake thing...he says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches(Golding 36). The snake thing is a figment of the littluns imagination, causing the children to be more scared which in turn leads them to conjure up more imaginary objects that they believe will hurt them. It is also evident that the boys are scared when Ralph says to Jack that, theyre frightened...they dream. You can hear em...They talk and scream...As if it wasnt a good island (Golding 52). The boys have nothing to fear on the island however they want to return home where at that place is danger and war. It is ironic that the boys want to leave the island and return home where there ... ...(Golding 181). Jack is a character that instills the fear in the other boys to manipulate them into getting what he wants. By putting the fear into the other boys, they follow him and accept out his evil work leading to vio lence and chaos. This not only shows that Jack is manipulative, but that he also has a fear of not organism a leader and in control. Imagination is the root of fear and leads to destruction and death in the novel. It can make people do irrational things and triggers responses in our security center. In the Lord of the Flies, fear is more dangerous than any beast because the boys are afraid of themselves. Everything that the boys are scared of have an unknown reflection to them. Instead of conquering fear, imagination provokes violence and chaos. The only thing we really have to fear, is fear itself due to its mentally and physically destructive nature.