Lord Of The Flies And To Kill A Mockingbird Analysis

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Although William Golding’s Lord of the Flies and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird are set in different places and times there are children that grow up and lose innocence. Children represent the symbol of innocence in these novels and in from both novels were innocent in the beginning, but then lose it through different ways. The author shows these with success by the use of symbols. The group of children and Jem and Scout were both very innocent in the beginning. Jack, the antagonist was not bloodthirsty nor a rebel in the beginning. “‘Why didn’t you-?’…because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (Golding 31). We can see that even the most sinful person on Earth was once…show more content…
Golding uses different colors to symbolize innocence”The conch glimmered among the trees, a white blob against the place where sun would rise.”(Golding 124). “blood blackening between the teeth” (Golding 137).” The Lord of the Flies hung on his stick like a black ball” (Golding 145). By contrasting white and black Golding defines the line between innocence and evil very clear. The pig’s head blackened by the blood is a sacrifice for an imaginary beast that symbolizes darkness and the unknown, and on the other hand the conch is white and symbolizes the pure color that resembles innocence. When one of the children is killed the conch also gets destroyed “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (Golding 181). When this murder is made and innocence is abolished the conch’s authority also vanishes, we can see the use of symbols to represent dramatic situations. In Lee’s novel the mockingbird is used as symbol of innocence. “it’s a sin to kill a Mockingbird” (Lee 90). As mockingbirds don’t do a thing that harms others it is used as a symbol for innocent people “‘Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?’” (Lee 276). Scouts realizes she will be like killing a mockingbird if she does not protect a innocent person from her neighbors’
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