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" All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat. He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken witch -like a bird , a vision of red and yellow , flashed upwards with a witch-like cry ; and this cry was echoed by another" ( Pg 1 pg 1). The scar was a mark of humanity ruining nature, that shows that we has humans destroy our planet in this case it was the island that the boys had destroyed. William Golding describes this plane crash has something that can not be healed thats why its named "the scar" . This helped me with my model to show how the island was no longer pure with the damage of the plane so I made "the Scar" look ugly by putting mud and fallen wood. It was no longer has beautiful as it was before …show more content…
That helpled me visualize that part of the book. He descroibes as "…darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.”( Pg 4 pg1) what this tells me is that its a dark area that symbolizes a haunting memory for the british boys. A scary haunting moment that will always be with them and, can not be forgotten just like the plane will never be moved it made its mark. Forever it will be a memory none of the boys could forget. On my model i tried to cover much of the detail that was put on the book the scary vibe that it explained it in the ruin of the island includeing the details it said. The island is not as beautiful as it lookes before . Golding Williams wanted the readers to understans that evil within mankind has left an ugly, permanent mark on the world. "The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scatered with decaying coconuts and palm sapling" ( pg 3 pg 8) the island no longer looked the same as it did before with the ugly plane crash because it caused a lot of damaged to the island as he explained. The scar is the destruction of what man is capable of causing to Earth and ultimately one another. What the scar symblolizes is all the scars we make on this planet. The frightning memory of the boys crashing and landing on a lost island ,is what i captuired on my model i gave a horrifying look on that part of the

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