The novel To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee takes place in the years of 1933 and 1935, during three years of the Great Depression in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Through the course of the novel, six-year-old Jean Louise ”Scout” Finch and her older brother, Jeremy Atticus ”Jem” Finch combat the struggles and obstacles of growing up and learning the acts and behaviours of the society and world they live in. The book centralises on the experience the individual conscience and loss of innocence the two characters go through.
Themes such as southern life and racial injustice, class, courage and compassion, gender roles, laws (written and unwritten) and loss of innocence are all portrayed in the book by Lee who has loosely based the book on …show more content…
Children enact their entertainment, knowing that the games could get violent, but in the end when the games are over, all the players are able to return home. Adults play their games, hurting anyone who doesn't play by the given rules, and not everyone is fortunate enough to return home. Through the novel, the children use these games of theirs to develop from their innocence to a level of experience by actualising the realities of their games through the lives of the adults
The second novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, published in 1954 is situated in the midst of a war where a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The book continues and is written in a pessimistic, unsparing tone around the survival of the young boys and how they take the situation into hand. The three characters that I will be focusing on that influence the topic ”Loss of childhood innocence” include Ralph, Jack and …show more content…
Whilst hiding he realises that all traces of civilisation have been stripped from the island. The next day, Ralph has to flee for his life from Jack and the other body-painted warrior-boys wielding sharp wooden spears. He finally ends up on the beach, collapsing in exhaustion. Quickly after, Ralph looks up to see a naval officer standing over him. The officers ship had come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle from when Jack was trying to smoke Ralph out. As soon as the officer sees all the barbaric boys, he assumes that the boys are just up to ”fun and games”. From him saying this, it almost immediately makes the book seem like a children’s book again despite all the violence and uncivilised behaviour the boys perform. The youthful boys lose their innocence throughout the book due to the soul reason of not having any adults present but as soon as adults make an appearance into the picture again, the savage like kids are quickly overwhelmed when they realise that a class of young, English boys have lost all reverence for the rules of civilisation in such a short period of
Themes such as southern life and racial injustice, class, courage and compassion, gender roles, laws (written and unwritten) and loss of innocence are all portrayed in the book by Lee who has loosely based the book on …show more content…
Children enact their entertainment, knowing that the games could get violent, but in the end when the games are over, all the players are able to return home. Adults play their games, hurting anyone who doesn't play by the given rules, and not everyone is fortunate enough to return home. Through the novel, the children use these games of theirs to develop from their innocence to a level of experience by actualising the realities of their games through the lives of the adults
The second novel Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, published in 1954 is situated in the midst of a war where a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. The book continues and is written in a pessimistic, unsparing tone around the survival of the young boys and how they take the situation into hand. The three characters that I will be focusing on that influence the topic ”Loss of childhood innocence” include Ralph, Jack and …show more content…
Whilst hiding he realises that all traces of civilisation have been stripped from the island. The next day, Ralph has to flee for his life from Jack and the other body-painted warrior-boys wielding sharp wooden spears. He finally ends up on the beach, collapsing in exhaustion. Quickly after, Ralph looks up to see a naval officer standing over him. The officers ship had come to the island after seeing the blazing fire in the jungle from when Jack was trying to smoke Ralph out. As soon as the officer sees all the barbaric boys, he assumes that the boys are just up to ”fun and games”. From him saying this, it almost immediately makes the book seem like a children’s book again despite all the violence and uncivilised behaviour the boys perform. The youthful boys lose their innocence throughout the book due to the soul reason of not having any adults present but as soon as adults make an appearance into the picture again, the savage like kids are quickly overwhelmed when they realise that a class of young, English boys have lost all reverence for the rules of civilisation in such a short period of