Innocence In Lord Of The Flies

Tiffany Madison once said, "No one loses their innocence. It is either taken or given away willingly." In William Golding's novel Lord of The Flies, the boys get their childhood innocence taken away. The boys crash land on an island with no adults and older kids are made to step up and take charge of everything. But as time passes the boys start growing savage and losing childhood innocence. It starts getting bad enough that people start killing other people. There are many themes in the novel and in the movie that we explore. Some of the themes are civilization vs savagery, rules and order, and loss of innocence. One of the themes in the Lord of The Flies is civilization vs savagery. In the book, Jack is part of this choir group and he’s the one who in the beginning says we need to have rules and order because they aren’t savages, but he’s the first one to disobey them and decides he doesn’t like them. Jack says, "We’ve got to have rules

This is Jack talking and it relates because in the beginning Jack is the one who’s like we need rules we aren’t savages. Later on Jack is the one who starts disobeying the rules first and turns savage. One thing that happened in the movie is that Roger kills Simmons chameleon (Hook). This shows the development of theme and how it is different than in the book is Roger who is one of the older boys on the island killed Simon's pet chameleon for no reason and after Roger killed it everyone was shocked and acted as if he shouldn’t have done that and was like why did you do that. After Simon leaves, they all start killing pigs and transitioning into savages. In the novel Lord of The Flies it talks about how Roger a boy who’s older was throwing rocks at a littleun, but there was like a little force shield of his old life. "Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed and threw it at Henry-threw it to miss...Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Here, invisible yet strong, was the