1. Lord of The Flies reveals the typical stuggle between one's morals, and how far someone is willing to go in order to survive. During a war, there was a plane full of boys, who are to fight in the war, and was shot down on an island. Instead of being in despair because of the crash, the boys are filled with joy because they feel this is the time they can have their freedom and independence. Ralph and Piggy are twelve years old, become the organizers of a mini tribe. The boys declared someone a leader, and told each individual what they have to do, in order to survive. The boys have created a place on their own land, with their own rules. At first, they were excited for having an island all to themselves. However, the struggle of food, and keeping warm become reality. The boys have become into a stae of fear, and they do not how they will survive. They are constantly doing whatever it takes to achieve the neccessities. Insanity overcomes the boys, and began to blame one another for the lack of food, and warmth. Each boy becomes into a monster, and are against one another. As the boys try to kill one another.. They are rescued by a British naval officer.
2. The major theme of this novel is the loss of innocene and how a person will go to survive. Since the boys were forced to fight in a war and become men, they had to say goodbye to their childhoods. When a child is robbed of their childhood, they have to grow up before they are ready.This causes insanity, and the boys go against each other. Each boy is willing to do whatever it takes, in order to survive. Fear and betrayal was among the boys. They were destined to fall into temptation of blaming one another.
3.William Golding's tone was very dark. He described the boys as violent, and insane. I felt very creeped out when the author described the boy's behavior toward one another. Golding creates a lot of suspense and unpredictability.
"There was something dark...fumbling along....The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in...two parallel lines...." pg. 18
4. Golding's literary elements and techniques create suspense and help the audience feel the character's desperation to survive. He uses imagery, metaphors, foreshadowing and symbolism in order to establish his theme across the whole novel.
Imagery: "Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before...before him small children squatted in the grass." Chapter 2, pg. 30
Metaphor: "The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island." pg. 52
Symbolism: "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for [the littluns] the fruit they could not reach...[and] passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands." pg. 51
"The hunters' thoughts were crowded with memories...of the knowledge... that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink." pg 64
CHARACTERIZATION
1 & 2. The author doesn't change his diction/syntax with different characters because the boys are more represented as a group, yet they fight individualy. The characterization among the characters is all the same.
"Jack was tall, thin, and bony...his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face was...freckled, and ugly without silliness." pg. 19
"Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another." pg. 71
"Piggy was...so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood." pg. 118
3. There is no protagonists because it's a group of boys. However, each character is round because they are different in the beginning as they are in the end.
"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" pg. 130
"Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of on this island....Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" pg. 75
4. I do not believe I have met any of these characters in real life. However, I do believe I have met the characters, who they were in the beginning because they were average, young kids. They have silly nicknames for one another, and they are adventurous.
"I don't care what [you] call me so long as...[it's not] what they used to call me in school...They used to call me Piggy!" pg. 11
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