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Loss of innocence - Coggle Diagram
Loss of innocence
Evidence
Chap 4
Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry— threw it to miss. (clearly wanted 2 hurt Henry but the loss of innocence is a slow process)
“For hunting. Like in the war. You know—dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else—” (while this originally was da purpose of face paint, it quickly became freedom from shame)
“The job was too much. We needed everyone.”
(the love of hunting became an excuse for why they let out the fire which is a symbol of them losing the understanding of what's important(im not v sure whether this important)
Jack mimicked the whine and scramble.
“Jus’ you wait—yah!” (he is completely unaware of how important piggy's specs are and it being the symbol of reason, when one glass is broken, it symbolises them losing intelligence (im not v sure whether dis important )
“That was a dirty trick.” (to deal w da dispute of him letting out the signal fire, he doesnt talk it out but instead goes to violence, which shows loss of innocence)
Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. As they danced,they sang. “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.” ( they forget how dangerous this dance mayb and do it for fun)
Chap 5
This meeting must not be fun, but business. At that he walked faster, aware all at once of urgency and the declining sun and a little wind created by his speed that breathed about his face. (Ralph is losing his innocence quickly, but gaining an understanding of natural processes such as increasing savage)
Yet now, he saw, no one had had the wit—not himself nor Jack, nor Piggy—to bring a stone and wedge the thing. (R ponders how maintenance of the status quo has taken precedence over the simple solution of securing the log with a stone wedge.)
Chap 3
Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours
yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped. (dehumanised 4 hunting)
He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up. “I went on. I thought, by myself—” The madness came into his eyes again. “I thought I might—kill.” (dis rage and him talking abt hunting repeatedly appears in this chapter w him unable 2 focus on anything else)
the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter. (simon's haven was holy
Chap 2
“Before I could kill it–but–next time!”
Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly.
Jack was on his feet. “We’ll have rules!” he cried excitedly. “Lots of rules! Then when anyone
breaks ’em–” (more into punishing others than enforcing rules)
Chap 1
Jack snatched from behind him a sizable sheath-knife and clouted it into a trunk. The buzz rose and died away.
They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
Meaning
As the boys on the island progress from well-behaved, orderly children longing for rescue to cruel, bloodthirsty hunters who have no desire to return to civilization, they naturally lose the sense of innocence that they possessed at the beginning of the novel.
results naturally from their increasing openness to the innate evil and savagery that has always existed within them.
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Ralph is devastated when he realizes that he is no better than Jack or Roger, and that he has a darkness inside as well.(mature & aware)
Symbols
The painted savages in Chapter 12 who have hunted, tortured, and killed animals and human beings are a far cry from the guileless children swimming in the lagoon in Chapter 3
The forest glade in which Simon sits in Chapter 3 symbolizes this loss of innocence. At first, it is a place of natural beauty and peace, but when Simon returns later in the novel, he discovers the bloody sow’s head impaled upon a stake in the middle of the clearing. The bloody offering to the beast has disrupted the paradise that existed before—a powerful symbol of innate human evil disrupting childhood innocence.
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