The boys loss of innocents really kicked in when they had killed their group member Simon. The boys had been chanting to kill what they had though was the beast .”Kill the beast ! Cut his throat ! Spill his blood!” (Golding 152) The boys had beat Simon to death as he …show more content…
They had realised there were no adults and how to become an adult and or think like one. It was a big struggle to learn how to take care of themselves and then it became chaotic. The killing of a mother pig started it all. Then soon after the killing of the pig it escalated to killing a group member named Simon. The boys split groups between Ralph’s and Jack’s became demeaning towards one another because Ralph’s group wanted to survive and Jack’s just wanted to have more power . This all meant that once they had been rescued they were no longer the innocent school boys they had been when they got to the island . They were now killers and savages