In a literary context, we felt that various characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Good Earth, and Lord of the Flies brought up the question in discussions. ... The survival-of-the-fittest struggles that the adolescent boys in The Lord of the Flies went through had psychological effects that will cause them to see themselves and others as merely contained savages. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate