The Lord Of The Flies, By William Golding
Would you be able to survive on a island for a month? You would have others to help you, but no resources from home. Oh, and you are about twelve years old. William Golding’s novel Lord of The Flies is a tale written in the time of the war when a plane suddenly crashes on a deserted island with only a handful of boys surviving. With no adults on the island with them, the handful of boys are forced to work together to try and get rescued. However it is not an easy task when they are only children, they lose focus, they want to play, and they get mad at each other. Golding uses multiple story elements to develop a theme that without a civil society, nothing can be accomplished and conflict will arise.
It is around the mid 1950’s and a plane …show more content…
Children are very dramatic, when they catch a small fish they tell people they caught a fish that was two feet long. It’s similar to the way the boys saw and described their lives on the island. A sharpened stick to them was a spear used to kill the beast, they like to exaggerate. At the end of the story, when the officer walks onto the beach of the island, the reader’s perspective changes. We now see the boys and island for what it really is, they were “little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, [and] sharp sticks in their hands...fun and games, said the officer.” To any adult seeing these boys, it looks like fun and games, like they were playing pretend war, but to the boys they were actually having a real war, Ralph really believed he was running for his …show more content…
Glasses are symbolic for a nerd in any story, look at Alvin and the Chipmunks, Simon wears glasses and is referred to as the nerd of the group. Piggy in this story is the nerd who wears the glasses and has the logic and knowledge throughout the story. Piggy is Ralph’s right hand man, and gives him advice like when he found the conch, “we can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us,” it was the the ideas like that, that helped the boys get through their adventure even though Piggy died before everyone was rescued. Even the conch symbolizes the order that the boys must follow to keep any sort of civilization on the
It is around the mid 1950’s and a plane …show more content…
Children are very dramatic, when they catch a small fish they tell people they caught a fish that was two feet long. It’s similar to the way the boys saw and described their lives on the island. A sharpened stick to them was a spear used to kill the beast, they like to exaggerate. At the end of the story, when the officer walks onto the beach of the island, the reader’s perspective changes. We now see the boys and island for what it really is, they were “little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, [and] sharp sticks in their hands...fun and games, said the officer.” To any adult seeing these boys, it looks like fun and games, like they were playing pretend war, but to the boys they were actually having a real war, Ralph really believed he was running for his …show more content…
Glasses are symbolic for a nerd in any story, look at Alvin and the Chipmunks, Simon wears glasses and is referred to as the nerd of the group. Piggy in this story is the nerd who wears the glasses and has the logic and knowledge throughout the story. Piggy is Ralph’s right hand man, and gives him advice like when he found the conch, “we can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us,” it was the the ideas like that, that helped the boys get through their adventure even though Piggy died before everyone was rescued. Even the conch symbolizes the order that the boys must follow to keep any sort of civilization on the