Lord Of The Flies Summary
Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, is a novel about a group of adolescent boys who are deserted on an uninhabited island that lacks adult supervision after they are separated from their friends and families during a time of war in Britain. From the beginning, an older boy named Ralph, the main character, establishes a system of leadership within the small group of about twenty to thirty boys that range between the ages of five to twelve years old. Ralph, the oldest, is named the leader but one of the other older boys, Jack, thinks that he could be a better leader because he knows how to hunt which causes the two boys to bicker and argue with each other throughout the entire novel until they are rescued by a naval ship that sees
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The events he describes extensively seem extremely long and could even cause the reader to lose interest in the reading. For example, one of the main points in the plot was when two twin boys, Sam and Eric, thought they saw the beast on top of the mountain on page ninety-eight. The boys were running back to the others to tell them about how they saw the beast. The pair ran back and when they got there, all of the boys were sleeping in shelters. Sam and Eric woke up Ralph to tell him about their horrific experience with the beast that they thought they saw. This event in the plot is supposed to be suspenseful and it is supposed to be a major point in the rising action. Instead, as the reader is reading as fast as Sam and Eric are running, they are then slowed by the author’s extensive use of imagery that retards the reader's’ excitement for the upcoming events. William Golding uses imagery to describe the sky and the surrounding for a long, unattractive paragraph on page ninety-nine. This can make the reader lose interest because in this sudden revelation of the beast, the flow of the story is broken. It can be seen as broken up because the extensive use of imagery in the description seems to be unrelated to the main event happening, therefore making it too
The events he describes extensively seem extremely long and could even cause the reader to lose interest in the reading. For example, one of the main points in the plot was when two twin boys, Sam and Eric, thought they saw the beast on top of the mountain on page ninety-eight. The boys were running back to the others to tell them about how they saw the beast. The pair ran back and when they got there, all of the boys were sleeping in shelters. Sam and Eric woke up Ralph to tell him about their horrific experience with the beast that they thought they saw. This event in the plot is supposed to be suspenseful and it is supposed to be a major point in the rising action. Instead, as the reader is reading as fast as Sam and Eric are running, they are then slowed by the author’s extensive use of imagery that retards the reader's’ excitement for the upcoming events. William Golding uses imagery to describe the sky and the surrounding for a long, unattractive paragraph on page ninety-nine. This can make the reader lose interest because in this sudden revelation of the beast, the flow of the story is broken. It can be seen as broken up because the extensive use of imagery in the description seems to be unrelated to the main event happening, therefore making it too