Ernest Hemingway said “All things truly wicked start from innocence.” In the book, Lord Of The Flies, a group of English schoolboys were flying in a plane and their plane crashed on an island in the pacific. On the island there were no adults, so the boys attempted to make a set of rules and a functioning society on their own. The boys tried their best to maintain rules and society, but they failed to do so as violence acts transformed them. This failure resulted in chaos and ultimately the loss of the boy’s innocence. The boys lost their innocence when they killed a mama pig, killed simon, and stalked Ralph.
The first violent act that the boys participated in was when Jack and his hunters killed a mama pig. After Jack and his hunters
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The boys saw Simon approaching and they violently attacked him. “At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock,lept onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore”(Golding 153). The boys were in a mob which clouded their mindset, enabling the brutal murder of Simon .
Last, the boys weren’t satisfied with just killing Simon so they also pursued Ralph. The boys decided to stalk him chasing him in the woods, and waiting for him in the tall grass. “Ralph listened, He was not really far from the Castle Rock, and during the first panic he had thought he heard sounds of pursuit”(Golding 263). After several hours of pursuit Ralph and the boys find a way off the island without harming Ralph.
In conclusion, there were no adults on the island to set rules, so the boys tried to make their own society, but failed. There were three key events that ultimately transformed the boys, the first was killing a mama pig. The second was when they mobbed Simon and ended up killing him with their bare hands. The final was when the boys stalked Ralph in hopes of killing him. The boys came onto the island innocent, but through various killings and wrongdoings left the island as mature