Loss of Innocence in Island Survival

After the plane crashes and the boys find each other, they are scared and helpless. However, after establishing rule and living on the island for some, the boys transform into blood thirsty savages. Because Ralph found and blew into the conch, all surviving members of the plane crash are able to come to one place. The boys call for a vote and Ralph is elected leader. Then Jack, Ralph, and Simon go up to the mountain top to search for a way off. However, on the way back, they find a piglet but Jack can 't bring himself to kill it (Page 23). For this reason, the boys still remember what it’s like to be a civilized kid and this shows how innocence is still present inside the boys. Later, Jack tracks a pig through the forest, but it escapes. Afterwards,

The island itself is boat-shaped, and in the opening scenes the island has the glamour of a new-found paradise(."On Lord of the Flies."). Ralph and the others are now in an unknown but beautiful place. Before finding the conch, Ralph was swimming and having fun in the warm ocean waters. The island “can be a wonderful place, as the littluns discover by day when they are bathing in the lagoon pool or eating fruit from the trees”("Themes and Construction: Lord of the Flies") But soon after lighting the first fire, it transforms the island, now half of the island is burned to the ground showing what always becomes of humans; the innocence goes away. At night the littluns cry out in fear because they now know that the island isn 't perfect; it 's a scary place. They become accustomed to the mirages, 'and ignored them, just as they ignored the miraculous, throbbing stars '("On Lord of the Flies"). The beauty of the earthly paradise grows stale to their eyes. At the end, when the boys are hunting Ralph, they set the island on fire again to try and smoke him out of his hiding spot. The succeed in doing so but the fire is now uncontrollable. It is spreading everywhere. Ironically, the fire actually gets them saved, as a passing by ship notices it and comes to help. But, now the past paradise has become a fiery pit of destruction; a living