Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about the life of school aged boys on an unknown island after their plane crashed, and how they lived without adults to lead and guide them. Throughout the book, more and more violent actions take place as leadership slips out of Ralph’s hands and into Jack’s. Jack and his hunters grow to enjoy the acts of violence that take place. Piggy is in denial about some of the violence. Ralph realizes he is too far gone to attempt to return to a life where the violence grown within this group isn’t in his memory. This book demonstrates how extreme violence damages the innocence of children.
In the book, Jack started of like any other boy on the island. When he fails to kill a pig while with Ralph and Simon, …show more content…
He witnessed all of the horror and gore of Simon’s death. I imagine that any child witnessing the death of Simon in a regular circumstance would be horrified, and would take a lot of time to get over it, if the ever did get over it. Piggy even goes on to blame Simon for his death by stating that he shouldn’t have crawled out of the forest in the dark. I think Piggy is trying to shut out his fear and hurt due to the murder of Simon, so he hardens his heart into believing that Simon’s death was an accident, in order to carry on and to help Ralph carry on. The ways of the island has stolen the innocence of Piggy, and everyone else. On the last pages of Lord of the Flies, the boys are discovered by a naval officer. Ralph breaks down and cries. “And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Here, Ralph realizes that he will not go back to his regular life as the same boy he was before the plane crashed. He cries not only because he had it all built up, but because he was deeply saddened that he will never be the
In the book, Jack started of like any other boy on the island. When he fails to kill a pig while with Ralph and Simon, …show more content…
He witnessed all of the horror and gore of Simon’s death. I imagine that any child witnessing the death of Simon in a regular circumstance would be horrified, and would take a lot of time to get over it, if the ever did get over it. Piggy even goes on to blame Simon for his death by stating that he shouldn’t have crawled out of the forest in the dark. I think Piggy is trying to shut out his fear and hurt due to the murder of Simon, so he hardens his heart into believing that Simon’s death was an accident, in order to carry on and to help Ralph carry on. The ways of the island has stolen the innocence of Piggy, and everyone else. On the last pages of Lord of the Flies, the boys are discovered by a naval officer. Ralph breaks down and cries. “And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy” (Golding 202). Here, Ralph realizes that he will not go back to his regular life as the same boy he was before the plane crashed. He cries not only because he had it all built up, but because he was deeply saddened that he will never be the