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Lord Of The Flies - Character - College Papers

Lord Of The Flies - Character

Viewing the Text from a Different Perspective
Many times in novels the elements of setting, mood and tone are used to extend beyond the words in a text and elaborate the reader�s mind into imagining the actual events taking place. In the classic novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes the setting, mood and tone in great detail to reflect how the characters think, act and feel.
Upon a desolate tropical island, a group of boys of different characteristics get marooned when their plane crashes. Golding describes the island in a way that appeals to the reader as paradise,
�The palms that stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections ...

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an eerie figure drifts down from the sky and lands in the forest several yards away from Sam and Eric.
�There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky...There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would. Then three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain.� (p.95)

The dead parachutist, also known as the beast, is used to foreshadow the death of Simon, a small although intellectual boy. The parachutist shows the idea of one man slaughtering another as he dies in war.
As Simon, returns to the other boys to inform them of his encounter with the parachutist (the beast), he is mistaken for the beast and is brutally attacked. The effects of lighting, rain as well as wind aroused the sensation of ...

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Added: 4/2/2008 02:37:30 AM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 655
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