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Innocent Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

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Children are not Innocent Children are supposed to be innocent beings. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, they are the exact opposite. William Golding writes about how the children on the island are, at first, civil and everything is in order. As the story goes on, things start to slowly change. Many things start going wrong and the children start resorting to savagery. William Golding suggests that the longer a group is removed from civilization, the more savage their behaviour becomes. When the boys realize the situation they are in, they waste no time in making decisions. They start by deciding a chief, and after the votes are counted Ralph states: “I’m the chief then” (19) and starts recognizing what needs to be done on the island in order for them to be rescued. Ralph tells all of the boys that the key to getting rescued is that they need to “make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.” (37) and the boys take turns keeping the fire going throughout the day. There are many things in the start of the novel that symbolize order and civilization such as the conch, which is used as a talking stick, and Percival Wemys’ repetitive quote of his name and address. …show more content…

There are small things that are said and done that show that the boys have been away from civilization for a long period of time. For survival, Ralph had assigned Jack and his choir boys to be the hunters. When the boys go out hunting they let their imagination get the best of them. During a pig hunt, they came across piglets feeding on their mother, after they chased and killed the pig “Maurice skewered the carcass” (150) for them to put in the ground as an offering to the beastie. When they got back to the other boys, Roger acted as the sow as the other boys poked at them with their spears, “even Ralph was fighting to get near.”

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