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Lord of the Flies Innocence Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 [Simon saw] the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. (6.140) |
Simon begins to realize that humans are capable of terrible behavior as well as heroic, noble behavior.
| Quote #5 On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun. (12.211) |
If the boys lose their innocence throughout the course of the novel by realizing how horribly they have acted on the island, we the reader lose our innocence at the end of the novel when we realize how horribly we have acted in the real world. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.
| Quote #6 The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body. His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. (12.248) |
Ralph weeps for the end of his innocence and everyone good is dead.
