good/ innocence Flashcards
chapter 3
good is presented as heart-warming through the innocence of the littluns.
the littluns ‘run after’ simon
they ‘lugged him towards the trees’
‘simon found for them the fruit they could not reach’
‘butterflies danced’
chapter 5
good is presented as declining through the upsurge in violence and destruction of order.
‘bollocks to the rules!’
‘if theres a beast, we’ll hunt it down!’
‘we’ll close in and beat and beat and beat!’
chapter 9
good is presented as terminated through the violence of simon’s murder.
‘kill the beast! cut his throat! spill his blood! do him in!’
they ‘leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore’
chapter 8
good is presented as extinct through the sadistic actions of jack.
‘he was on top of the sow, stabbing downwards’
‘jack. a taboo was evolving round that word’
