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  • Essay / Theme of Innocence in Lord Of The Flies - 1829

    Ralph was so concerned with keeping the community together and trying to get everyone to focus on saving him that he was missing what others boys had discovered. Savagery, they indulged in it and were free to do what they wanted, Jack was the leader of the wild hunters and soon Ralph, the original "leader", had to join in the game of killing the pig. “There is no good without free will. Without the ability to freely choose the good or regret it, an individual has no control over their own soul. And without control there is no possibility of attaining grace” (Foster 112). The free will of Jack and the other boys capturing and slaughtering the pig creates great excitement among them. Their bloodlust is so strong that the idea of ​​killing one of the other boys for fun is considered more exciting than the civilized notion of savagery of this way of thinking.