Loss Of Innocence Quotes From Lord Of The Flies

Maycomb, a place with positive and negative feelings, a place of racism, a place of innocence. This novel To Kill a Mockingbird shows us the society of racism. At this time, Maycomb was suffering the Great Depression. In addition, it gives us a families point of view. However, they’re the main characters, which is Atticus, Jem, and Scout. The two themes I’d like to point out are innocence and inequality.

They are lost and alone, no one around, just them, the ocean and a tropical paradise. With no civilization, no regulations, or even mild things like a place to sleep, the young boys will find find out what they must do to survive alone in the unknown. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding the theme loss of innocence is clearly demonstrated throughout the book. The proper British boys were on a plane that crashed onto a tropical island. Without adults and the oldest boy being twelve, the boys must learn to survive themselves. Without civilization and authority to guide them, they turn to savagery and violence. In Lord of the Flies, William Golding portrays loss of innocence by exhibiting how people change when they realize what they

Sam and Eric, the twins that never seem to be apart, always honest, and always working towards the greater good. After Piggy’s tragic death, Jack takes Samneric and they become part of the tribe that he created. However, in Chapter Twelve when Ralph goes to talk to them, they warn him to leave or he might get in trouble.

In order for Jack to come to power, he uses the boy’s fear of the island while telling them that he will lead them to hunt and kill the beast. Currently, on the island, the beast was in everyone's thoughts and dreams. During the night, the littluns would scream during their sleep due to a figure known as the beast. Jack exclaims to Ralph that there was no beast on the island and there is nothing to be afraid of. Later on, in chapter 5 during an assembly, Jack declared that “...We’re strong–we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat–!” (91). Jack is exclaiming to the boys that there is a beast and he will hunt it down and beat it, even though he previously said to Ralph that the beast is a myth

Within the novel innocence is progressively lost through the boys. The boys were placed in a situation where they had no other choice but to grow up, and grow up fast. These boys were put in a very traumatic situation and they had to learn on their own and from each other how to survive and almost create a thriving society all on their own. Slowly they learn that their needs to be a leader, but there are no adults to precede the role of authority. Therefore the children resume power and take the role of authority. All these things make the boys lose their innocence and become very violent. No one is completely innocent and everyone has the ability to turn violent, this is demonstrated in William

“Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization” (Bennent). In J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher In The Rye, a sixteen year old boy named Holden Caulfield has to go through a plethora of different turbulent obstacles that no other normal kid his age would ever have to go through. He has flunked out of five schools, has had to cope with his younger brother Allie’s death and just never ever gets along with anyone. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, Holden has the fear of losing innocence. This is shown through the curse on the wall, the Little Shirley Beans record and finally the incident

In the Lord of the Flies when the British school boys are sent away and their plane crashes they’re stranded on an island without an adult. This leads them to do horrible things to each other. These boys who were stranded, lost every sense of innocence they used to have and that island took it from them. Some terrible things that the boys did was murder each other and slaughter a defenseless mama pig.

Evil on the innocent affects them to a manner in which they lose their innocence. This is seen when the innocents of The Lord Of The Flies and To Kill A Mockingbird encounter injustice and evil. Firstly, the injustice and evil actions can cause the innocents to lose their innocence by making the innocents question what they have known and been taught by revealing them to the harsh truth. It is seen in The Lord Of The Flies when the audience and Simon make a revelation. The beast haunting the children on the island is nothing more than the children’s own inner instinct and that which is made clear when the physical manifestation of the beast, which was the head of the pig surrounded in flies, talks to Simon in his clearing. The beast states that “QUOTE HERE INTERTWINE WELL PLZ”. This revelation, although a prior thought to Simon when he believes that the beast is “only us”(QUOTE CITE PLZ), shocks Simon into disbelief and later, unfortunately, faces the harsh truthfulness of the beast’s words as he dies to the hands of boys and their inner savagery. The harsh truth can also be seen in To Kill a Mockingbird with the character Jem. Jem is a person who believes that the legal system is a surefire way of delivering justice and that it was to never fail. During the case of Tom Robinson however, Jem faces the harsh truth. He watches as the jury convicts Tom Robinson as guilty and feels each guilty as a “separate stab between [his shoulders]”. The stabbing motion can represent the

Fear is a very strong emotion. It’s created by the thoughts we create in our minds. We can all choose whether we listen to those thoughts or if we push it to the back of our minds and carry on with our day. Sometimes fear is good. It tells us that we should get out of a dangerous situation or place. Other times, it can be evil. It controls and sabotages us. It haunts us everyday. Controlling people, like Jack, use it to their advantage. Other people, like Ralph, push them to the back of their minds and focus on the more important things in life. Simon comes face to face with the fear and evil.

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee Atticus Finch said “it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird”(pg 119). This quote is important because of the message it gives which is innocence of certain people in the book. Some of the examples are when Jem and Scout start looking at things from different people’s point of view,when the mob left because of Scout ,and when Atticus told the court to do their job.

Ralph: We need an assembly. Not for fun. Not for laughing and falling off the log.

After a series of events, such as the previously-mentioned shelter conflict and the creation of the beast, as well as the pig-killing dance at Jack’s camp, the deaths of Simon and Piggy, and the breaking of the conch shell (the only remaining symbol of order on the island), by the end of the story, all order is lost and the boys have turned into complete savages. They ruthlessly tried to kill or escape from each other until, thankfully, an adult marine arrived on the island who brought back peace and order. His appearance causes all the boys to regretfully cry, mourning their horrid experience on

To kill a mockingbird represents innocence because as we see throughout the novel, innocent characters are persecuted on the basis of race.

Big Brother discourages intimate personal relationships because every individual’s first, and only loyalty must be the state. It is in Chapter 1 that Winston reveals the emblem of the Anti-sex league, a “narrow scarlet sash” must be worn around the waist of its members. Its purpose is to discourage sexual desire among the youth of Oceania and encourage the projected belief that sexual intercourse os only about procreation - not desire. The Part does this as it does not want people to create personal loyalties; it demands loyalty to the Big Brother and to the state. This emblem is ironic as the scarlet is a shade of red which is associated with passion, desire and love. It is a very emotionally intense colour. Love and marriage are extremely

At the beginning of the novel, the boys are excited to be on an isolated location without anyone to boss them around. After all the time passed and the boys became frightened and weary, a parent was the only thing they could wish for. When savagery grows, so does the occurrence of irrational actions. “The growth of savagery in the boys demonstrates the power of original sin. Simon, the Christ figure, who tries to tell the children that their fears of a dead parachutist are illusory, is killed in a terrifying tribal dance”(Cox). Simon was simply trying to spread knowledge to save the souls of the other boys, much like Jesus. His death echoes the crucifixion of Christ himself (Kruger). The fascinating allusion of the novel is that the Lord of the Flies in which Simon speaks with exists in correlation with the Christian devil”(Fitzgerald). The boys’ first sin was becoming unhappy and dissatisfied with the things they already had. According to the Bible, it is not right to be unthankful for the blessing you have been given, no matter how small. The island represents the Garden of Eden and the boys had everything necessary to survive. They had plenty of food and water, yet their selfish craving for meat was the downfall that led to anger and fear. The selfishness of the boys faltered their relationship with God (Slayton). “The boys represent fallen angels with the island being hell” (Bufkin). Golding says that the boys sang like angels, yet they were truly devils. The plane crash represents the fall from heaven. “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling” (64). Jack was simply laughing when that innocence became a snarling of evil. A mindset can change when placed in a different environment, or faced with a new challenge of