It is in human nature to protect children and, to save them from the demons on this earth,...but …show more content…
First off, the officer can never really save them, not anymore. While yes, he can take them home and bring them to their moms, they will never be the same. At the point, the reader needs to be questioning if the boys’ souls can be saved, or if they are too far gone. This is a hard place for the reader, especially when “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." (Golding 184). The soldier was probably astonished when he saw the boys all dirty, smelly, and trying to kill each other.
The loss of innocence in Lord of the Flies is gradual, as it is for most people. And, as Ralph did, many wish for their innocence to come back. The problem is, once it is gone, it cannot come back. Whatever the person saw or did to lose it, has forever changed them. They no longer see the world as they once did.
Teenagers and adults often say they wish they could go back to a simpler time- a time when hurting people was not a sport, lying was not an act, and love was not a toy to break; the thing is, the “simpler time” everyone speaks of, was just a time when they were innocent, and the horrible things on earth were unknown to