Comparing Catcher In The Rye And Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the flies and Catcher in the rye are both very different stories that can be compared and contrasted.For instance in contrasting the two stories,we have scenery.In Lord of the flies the boys are stranded in a deserted island after a plane had crashed out of nowhere.Then in Catcher in the rye we have Holden Caulfeild,a college dropout in the city of New York.One is being challenged in the elements while the other being in society.“I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South.” As they are being challenged in two different environments they do somehow have an connection with smoke.In Lord of the flies, Ralph is always reminding the boys to keep the smoke alive for passing ships
I don't blame them. I really don't. I slept in the garage the night he died, and I broke all the goddam windows with my fist, just for the hell of it. I even tried to break all the windows on the station wagon we had that summer, but my hand was already broken and everything by that time…”This shows how he coped with his brothers death and how we can already see the symptoms of PTSD developing over the years with
said Ralph slowly,”I was-I don't know what I was.”.Being taken aback for his actions that night Piggy assures him that it wasn't his fault and as such helps Ralph to move on as chief.Afterwards they both experience more deaths of people they’ve interacted with in the past but don't really think of it as much as their first experience with death.Presumably Holden with the suicide of a college student who threw himself out of the window after being bullied too much and Piggy whose head cracked open after being smashed on a rock.They both don't really see it as much and just continue on with their