Liam Tepen
Mrs. Stewart
10H English, Hour 4
12 October 2015
The Innocence of Children Children are cute, innocent, pure, and fun to be around. Evil and children are thrown together in Golding’s Lord of the Flies and innocence is pushed to the limit. A group of boys are thrown on an island without an adult supervisor, not to mention innocent british boys. Children are anything but innocent, and demonstrate acts even adults are too disturbed to do. Peace and sanity are tested throughout the story, until they are both eventually lost. When Jack “smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks” (Golding 71). Piggy’s glasses are a symbol for order and human nature throughout the story; during this period one side of Piggy’s glasses are broken. With one side broken order is beginning to be lost, and when Jack stole Piggy’s glasses and “from his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses” (168). All order is lost and chaos only follows until the officer arrives on the island. Piggy’s glasses can sum up the story by themselves, when one side breaks the children start to lose sanity; when both sides break all hell breaks lose to the point of no turning back. …show more content…
When Roger’s “arm was conditioned by a civilization that...was in ruins” (62). Roger refuses to actually hit a child with a rock even though he would never face punishment. But when Roger “leaned all his weight on the lever….The rock struck Piggy” how could Roger kill another child (181)? Piggy dies by a much larger rock sent by Roger, ironically, because he refuses to hit a smaller boy with much smaller rocks. In the middle of the story, Roger would not hit a boy with a rock, then he kills a boy with a rock as the story began to
Mrs. Stewart
10H English, Hour 4
12 October 2015
The Innocence of Children Children are cute, innocent, pure, and fun to be around. Evil and children are thrown together in Golding’s Lord of the Flies and innocence is pushed to the limit. A group of boys are thrown on an island without an adult supervisor, not to mention innocent british boys. Children are anything but innocent, and demonstrate acts even adults are too disturbed to do. Peace and sanity are tested throughout the story, until they are both eventually lost. When Jack “smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks” (Golding 71). Piggy’s glasses are a symbol for order and human nature throughout the story; during this period one side of Piggy’s glasses are broken. With one side broken order is beginning to be lost, and when Jack stole Piggy’s glasses and “from his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses” (168). All order is lost and chaos only follows until the officer arrives on the island. Piggy’s glasses can sum up the story by themselves, when one side breaks the children start to lose sanity; when both sides break all hell breaks lose to the point of no turning back. …show more content…
When Roger’s “arm was conditioned by a civilization that...was in ruins” (62). Roger refuses to actually hit a child with a rock even though he would never face punishment. But when Roger “leaned all his weight on the lever….The rock struck Piggy” how could Roger kill another child (181)? Piggy dies by a much larger rock sent by Roger, ironically, because he refuses to hit a smaller boy with much smaller rocks. In the middle of the story, Roger would not hit a boy with a rock, then he kills a boy with a rock as the story began to