Loss Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies Research Paper

My mask is based on the loss of innocence. This topic stood out to me when I thought about the novel, Lord of the Flies. I believe it is safe to say that the boys stranded on the island in Lord of the Flies lost a part of their innocence, considering that they tried to flee from war. They have experienced the consequences of war, realizing that life sometimes isn’t as great as it seems. Further into the novel, the boys’ innocence start to diminish more as they result to savagery and violence. The reality is that most people do lose their innocence at some point due to different causes such as traumatizing events. I lost my innocence through learning because it’s a part of growing up. Although innocence was the first thing that came up to my head when talking about this project, I did have other ideas. These ideas included jealousy and love. I obviously did not choose these topics only because I felt like I couldn’t elaborate on them well. There’s different types of love and jealousy and many people have different views on them, whether it’d be negative or positive. I just felt it’d be hard for me to explain the different types …show more content…
The dark represents that innocence lost while the colorful part represents the innocent itself. When you still have innocence, everything seems to be colorful and sweet. Sometimes the truth is sugarcoated for you just so it can be seen at a naive perspective. When you start losing your innocence though, the perpective changes. You see things almost dark or sinful, maybe even guilty. At sometimes, you feel bad for thinking or seeing something the wrong way because when you were innocent, you never thought that way. This was the idea that mainly helped with the design of the mask. I even added stickers and cute puff balls to emphasize the message. The colors themselves made the mask almost child like because most of us have most of our innocence during