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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, published in 1957, is considered a classic among adults and teenagers. In Lord of Flies, the lack of resources throughout the story such as food, clothing, and adults played an important role on the boy’s attitudes, feelings, and actions. The lack of these important resources led to death, savagery, and hatred. The question as to why the boy’s attitudes changed so drastically is asked frequently asked when reading this book. The boy’s blatant attitudes changed for various reasons. First, was because of the lack of clothing. The boys were stranded on the island with no extra clothing whatsoever. Ralph and some of the boys even went around bare. This didn’t bother most of boys because “ He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.” During the book, when Jack decides to form his own group, there was no clothing to set them apart from Ralph’s group. Jack just h