Comparison between "Lord of the flies" and "Catcher in the rye".

Comparison Essay         The two books that I am comparing are The Catcher in the Rye, and Lord of the Flies. The two books are very interesting and are very opposite yet the same in many ways. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is an idealistic character who becomes more of a realist as the novel progresses, while in the Lord of the Flies, many characters assume different roles. But the main argument between the …

…Flies, the kids are losing their innocence and there is nothing that they can do about it, because there will always be a higher power to take away innocence, like Jack did in Lord of the Flies. In both novels the characters lose their innocence, but in both novels, at the end the characters face reality. This shows that everyone will eventually lose their innocence, and everyone will have to adjust to life without it.