"The boys in Golding’s novel [Lord of the Flies] are not unsupervised. They are absolutely alone. There is no home to go to, no school, no church. There are no adults to turn to, to allay their fears. Death looms nearby. Under such circumstances they naturally form alliances, and those, so far as they are acts of the imagination, are good and natural things. The same may be said for the city gang. It is not that these boys spend too much time outside of the home. It is that they have no genuine home to spend time outside of." - Anthony Esolen in Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child