In “Lord of the Flies” young, British school boys are deserted on an island after their plane has crashed while fleeing from their school during the war. With no adults around to keep the peace the children begin to do whatever they want and whatever it takes to survive. As the children gradually grow from well-behaved, rule following children praying to be rescued into cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who have no want or need to return to civilization things begin to get wild. They naturally lose the sense of innocence that they maintained at the beginning of the novel due to the lack of adults, civilization, and order. The forest glade in which Simon sits in the third chapter symbolizes the beginning of this loss of innocence. At first, it is
