Joan Didion Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

“Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.” ― Joan Didion, On Self-Respect. In the book, The Lord of the Flies, a group of kids crash on an island and have to fend for themselves. Innocence is in the crashing of the plane because it is when the boys realize that they have to do things alone now. They had to work together to set up a nice society and to keep everything running good. However they lost their innocence with their actions. First it was killing the mama pig and hunting for her. Then moved on to the death of simon and that they killed him. Also chasing Ralph and going savage and then killing Piggy.
The book, The Lord of the Flies, is about a group of boys that have to survive alone. They progressively lose their sense of innocence. It starts off with the rules and to keep them all sane and not savage. Which the boys are good at for the first few months of civilization. Until the day came where they first killed the mama pig. "We spread round. I crept, on hands and knees. The spears fell out because they hadn't barbs on. The pig ran

He wanted a sane, organized civilization and wanted rules for everything. He was the one in the beginning who wanted fire to signal, but they were against it and didn’t listen. Although he was apart of the killing of Simon he was the most stable of the boys. They all argued about the signal fire and using Piggy’s glasses and Jack was fighting them for it.“Just an ordinary fire. You’d think we could do that, wouldn’t you? Just a smoke signal so we can be rescued. Are we savages or what? (Golding 244) Jack and Roger were hunting down Ralph and had the big fire going across the beach. Which meant that Ralph had to run from the savages and the fire. But ends up at the feet of a naval officer who gives them help. In the end Ralph was the smartest one because the idea of the signal fire was what got them