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Examples Of Innocence In Lord Of The Flies

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The Innocence of Infants

It is said by Eric Burdon that,” Inside each of us there there is a seed of both good and evil. And a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.”. This shows that even the most evil of people there can show innocence. Innocence is shown in the children in the movie Hunger Games. Also, within the novel Lord of the Flies the topic of innocence is shown in specific children. There are similarities between Hunger Games and Lord of the Flies that prove that there is innocence in certain characters. Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies proves that there is innocence inside of children. There was an example where an antagonist like character named Roger that would still resist to throw rocks at the younger children, the novel says, “Yet there was a space between round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.”(Golding 62). The six yard space was a wall between the root of evil and the strength of the rules of society. When Ralph was crying for help,”... He was down, rolling over and over in the warm sand, crouching with arm to ward off, trying to cry for mercy.”(200). It came to a point in the novel that all Ralph would do is cry for help instead of resolving it with violence. …show more content…

. Children that are at the age of twelve can enter the games to be brutally murdered even if they have committed no crime. Even when the kids are inside the games the main character Katniss has an encounter with another girl and they went opposite ways without even fighting. A character named Rue helps Katniss escape from being murdered by giving advice to drop the bee nest on the other contestants. This shows innocence because instead of Rue letting Katniss die or kill her herself she doesn't want to because she still has good in her heart to where she wants to help

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