Losing Innocence In Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding

Losing Innocence Innocence is what you wish you’d always have, but there is a chance you lose it before society thinks it is right. Society wants you to always be innocent of elections and other ads, to make you want to vote or buy the product. Innocence can also lead to yourself as a person running away and never coming back. Innocence can be lost in an environment, and in doing so, the person grows up. Innocence plays a big part in Lord of the Flies by Golding. The people who get stranded on an island are kids and they haven’t had any time or any situation of growing up without someone telling them what to do.“A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at

When the boys arrive at the island, they don’t know much about being on their own and have innocence in being an adult. When you grow up you normally have a natural way of losing your innocence and when you get put in an evil space your mind can lose it while also losing yourself. Lord of the Flies by Golding is a great showing of how the innocence of little boys can change in an evil environment. Innocence is also found in the Zimbardo experiment. Zimbardo’s experiment is tested when good people go into a bad place. Innocent people get put in a world that is controlling, as the prisoner and the guards are controlling. Innocence can mean what you think in the world can blind you to what is really going on. The Zimbardo experiment had random people sign up and many of the people were expecting to just sit around in a cell all day and eat when they got the chance, but that didn’t happen. The guards were controlling and one of the guards named John Wayne took it really far and if one of the prisoners acted up he would embarrass them and lock them in a dark