Lord Of The Flies - Character :: essays research papers

Viewing the Text from a Different spotMany times in novels the elements of setting, mood and tone are use to extend beyond the words in a text and fatten the lectors mind into imagining the actual events taking place. In the standard novel, Lord of the Flies, William Golding utilizes the setting, mood and tone in great detail to echo how the characters think, act and feel.Upon a desolate tropical island, a group of boys of unalike 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 fanny with a quive shout tangle of reflections from the lagoon...It was clear to the bottom and bright with the crown of tropical weed and coral. A school of tiny, glittering fish flicked hither and thither. (p.12)The island itself suggests a place of wonder and relaxation. Providing the reader with the impression of an utopia society, an impression that willing soon be contradicted as the novel progresses.After a presage fire is ignited by Ralphs orders, two young twins, surface-to-air missile and Eric stand guard in maintaining the fire. While on duty, an eerie recruit drifts down from the sky and lands in the forest several yards away from surface-to-air missile and Eric. There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew civilise 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 ever-changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would. Then three miles up, the wind steadied and wear out it in a descending curve round the sky and brush 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 terminal of Simon, a small although intellectual boy. The parachutist shows the idea of one macrocosm slaughtering another as he dies in war. As Simon, returns to the other boys to say them of his encounter with the parachutist (the beast), he is mistaken for the beast and is brutally attacked. The effect of lighting, rain as well as wind aroused the mastermind of rage and excitement in the boys in their slaughter. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of rock to the sand by the water.