Lord Of The Flies Theme

1. The plot of the story still revolves around the mysterious abandoned island in the middle of nowhere. The kids don’t have any way of getting off the island until Jack and Piggy suggest the idea of a smoke signal to signal any approaching air or sea vessels. Now Jack is trying to pursue a loose runt or pig on the island that he will kill. He fails at the task and abandoned his position in the society they have created. When he comes back from the jungle, he sees Simon and Ralph establishing huts around the sea shore for them to live under. Ralph at this point is very disappointed in all the boys because only he and Simon are contributing in trying to build the huts. The others are just fooling off somewhere else on the island.
The theme of the story is still based upon survival because nothing within the story contributed in solving their ongoing problem. Although, their problem would have been resolved if Jack (the antagonist of the story) and his band of hunters (the choir boys) would have stayed on the mountain and kept a close eye on the fire instead of hunting down a pig. Their carelessness cost them the opportunity to get back home when they saw a ship past by the horizon. But none the less, another theme arose in the middle of the story. Trust and respect is very important to one another especially in their situation. It ties in with the external conflict. Their trust in one another and their understanding/ communication skills are the most important part in having a mutual agreement and understanding with each
A) I think that the situation will get worse than ever before because all the characters in the story are pulling strings at each other that should never be pulled.
Q) If you were in Ralph’s position right now, what you do to the rest of the boys that were misbehaving?
A) If I were in Ralph’s position as the somewhat “leader” of all the kids, I would force them back into staying on their responsibilities because without anyone following the rules or doing their jobs, there would not be any progress in solving the problem.
8. Opalescence - Having a milky appearance
“ Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat – as though the impending sun’s height gave it momentum – became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping (Golding 58).”
Blatant – very loud or very noisy
“The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up to the sky, would quiver, and be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors (Golding