Loss Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies
Loss of Innocence in Lord of the Flies
Every child will lose their innocence one day and it is something that is unavoidable. This happens when a child explores the real world and that they realize that it is nothing like a fairy tale. In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of English kids (five to twelve years old) are stranded on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This was caused by a horrible plane crash. They are stuck there with no help or any adults. They eventually get rescued. Even if they know that they’re going back to civilization, they know that nothing will be the same as before they came to the island because they lost their innocence. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the boys’ loss their …show more content…
First of all, the littlluns fears the beast, which causes them to have nightmares and to be scared of going near the jungle. To demonstrate this argument, Golding quotes, "Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall" (Golding 98). So what Golding is saying here is that Ralph is dreaming about feeding ponies, but he is awakened by Sam and Eric talking about how scared they are from the beast. Thus, this quote clearly shows that Sam and Eric have lost their innocence, because the definition of innocence is when a person has an absence of some knowledge. Before the twins had come to the island, they were missing the knowledge of the beast. Later on in the story, they gain knowledge about fear and the beast, which is technically a loss of innocence. They think that the beast is some sort of monster that is on the island, but they don’t know that it does not exist which is a childish thing. This also shows that they just lost their innocence. Second of all, the beast brings evil onto the island and influences the boys commit evil acts. Such as, in chapter eight, Jack killing an innocent sow not for food, but to cut its head off and place it on a stick for food for the beast. Therefore, this event clearly shows that Jack is committing an evil …show more content…
The lack of civilization causes the boys to lose their moral values and also causes them to have a lack of law and punishment. The beast causes the boys of having fear and it brings evil upon the island. If there was an adult on the island with the kids would the boys, the boys would have kept their innocence and would they be still
Every child will lose their innocence one day and it is something that is unavoidable. This happens when a child explores the real world and that they realize that it is nothing like a fairy tale. In the novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, a group of English kids (five to twelve years old) are stranded on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. This was caused by a horrible plane crash. They are stuck there with no help or any adults. They eventually get rescued. Even if they know that they’re going back to civilization, they know that nothing will be the same as before they came to the island because they lost their innocence. In the novel Lord of the Flies, the boys’ loss their …show more content…
First of all, the littlluns fears the beast, which causes them to have nightmares and to be scared of going near the jungle. To demonstrate this argument, Golding quotes, "Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall" (Golding 98). So what Golding is saying here is that Ralph is dreaming about feeding ponies, but he is awakened by Sam and Eric talking about how scared they are from the beast. Thus, this quote clearly shows that Sam and Eric have lost their innocence, because the definition of innocence is when a person has an absence of some knowledge. Before the twins had come to the island, they were missing the knowledge of the beast. Later on in the story, they gain knowledge about fear and the beast, which is technically a loss of innocence. They think that the beast is some sort of monster that is on the island, but they don’t know that it does not exist which is a childish thing. This also shows that they just lost their innocence. Second of all, the beast brings evil onto the island and influences the boys commit evil acts. Such as, in chapter eight, Jack killing an innocent sow not for food, but to cut its head off and place it on a stick for food for the beast. Therefore, this event clearly shows that Jack is committing an evil …show more content…
The lack of civilization causes the boys to lose their moral values and also causes them to have a lack of law and punishment. The beast causes the boys of having fear and it brings evil upon the island. If there was an adult on the island with the kids would the boys, the boys would have kept their innocence and would they be still