Loss Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies Analysis

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“The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.”In Lord of the Flies there is a plane carrying small boys being sent from England and it crashed landing on an uninhabited tropical island, leaving a massive ''scar'' in the once pristine wilderness during World War II. Stranded on the island from the plane crash they had attempted to create their own society and in doing so they ended up losing their innocence along the way. After setting up the society, their society began to go horribly wrong. The boy's lost their innocence when they killed a mother sow, then went even further killing a boy on the island named Simon and finally attempting to hunt down another boy on the island named Ralph. The …show more content…

The boys had gathered in a frenzy and were ready to kill what was crawling out of the forest “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (Golding 153). There was a storm arising among the island and all the boys were gathered on the beach in a frenzy after the feast, that a boy named Jack had provided in order to persuade all the boys to join his tribe. While they were in a frenzy they heard something crawling around in the forest and they thought it was the beast on the island that everyone was talking about, but when it came crawling out the forests it was a boy named Simon. The frenzy distracted them from realizing that the thing that crawled out of the forest was not a beast, it was a boy that was screaming for them to stop. He was crying out trying to tell them that there was not actually a beast on top of the mountain like they thought they had seen, but that is was a dead parachutist. The beast as they thought was on its knees in the center of their circle with its hands over its face. Trying to get away from the boys, Simon fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water and the boys leaped down after him. In all, their innocence was lost at this point when the boys leapt on him as if he was the beast, using their teeth and claws to kill him. Once he was dead the heap broke up and staggered away. He was left lying a few yards away from the sea with his blood staining the sand. When they killed the boy named Simon they had the full intentions to try and kill anyone else that got in their

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