Friday, November 11, 2011
Will you please read through my essay on Lord of the Flies? Pleease :)?
In Chapter One in Lord of the Flies, William Golding devotes much of the chapter to describing the island the young boys are stranded on. He goes into great detail to create a clear visual picture in the reader’s mind. Golding does this so that the reader gets a feel for the island and its layout, because it soon becomes a major part of the story. Piggy frets that, “… this is an island. Nobody don’t know we’re here…We may stay here until we die.” When Ralph, Jack and Simon go on their expedition, they discover that they are on an otherwise uninhabited island. ““There’s no village smoke and no boats,” said Ralph wisely. We’ll make sure later, but I think it’s uninhabited.”” (pg 29-30) These textual examples let the reader know that the boys may be on the island for an extended period of time. Since the story is rooted in one spot, it is important that the reader be familiar with the setting so that as the boys go around the island, the reader knows what is going on and where. It is also important that the reader be familiar with the island, because the island almost takes on a persona of its own, and Golding wants the reader to get this idea. “Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.” (pg 26) “The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.” (pg. 29) Golding uses lush vocabulary and figurative language to give the reader the feeling that the island is alive. The island is wild, and unknown. The boys are cut off and isolated from the rest of the world, stranded on a mysterious scrap of land somewhere in the ocean. The boys’ isolation raises numerous opportunities to disobey civilized society and become as untamed as the island. They struggle to overcome the wilderness of the island that threatens to turn them savage and against each other. Golding aims to give the reader an idea of what the boys must overcome. Throughout chapter one, Golding verbally illustrates an undomesticated, untamed island to give the reader a foundation for where events happen in the rest of the novel and to forewarn the reader of the savagery yet to come.
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