“Every life is a march from innocence, through temptation, to virtue or vice.” -Lyman Abbott In the book, Lord of the Flies, small children were flown out of England because of the war and the plane crashed on an unknown island in the Pacific. Realizing there was no adults the boys had to create rules for survival. They had to grow up quickly because they wouldn’t be able to survive without the rules. They had trouble because they were small and this was a big task to do. The end of innocence for the boys was when they did the killing of the pig, killed a young boy Simon, and hunted Ralph. The boys first begin to lose their innocence when they killed a pig for food. The boys were split up into groups to help get work done faster. “Kill the