Elements of Fiction

Novel Study

PLOT

1. Recall your first impression of the book--this may have been based on the cover image, things you heard or read, or your feeling after getting into the first few pages. Is the book turning out to be the way you thought it would? How?

I chose this book because all the reviews I found said that it was weird and really good book. I like weird and good things. I also liked the cover and the title. I didn’t get the title and I still don’t get it yet. The cover is a little bit disturbing but that’s why it appeals to me.

So far into the book it isn’t really that weird. It’s not how I imagined it to be but I didn’t really know what to expect.

2. Make some notes and comment on some of the following:

* Predictions

I predict that maybe once some of the boys get really irritable and have had enough of being stranded that things will get weird. Maybe it will get violent or graphic I’m not sure.

* Questions that have come up for you

Why were all these boys on a plane without any adults besides the pilot? Where were they going and why were they going there? What happened to the plane and the pilot? How is this dystopian?

* Parts you like

I like how descriptive the author is, he paints a vivid picture especially with characters, and setting.

* Parts you don't like

Sometimes it’s hard to follow because there aren’t any big events yet.

* Personal connections

I don’t have any personal connection so far in the book.

3. Create a plot map including the exposition, inciting force, conflict, rising action, crisis, climax, falling action and resolution (look at the literary elements guide for help understanding these terms).

Exposition:

• A plane crashes full or British boys 6-12. 2 boys Piggy and Ralph meet ...

... middle of paper ...

...eep meaning and symbolism and imagery, he had to have had some sort of inspiration. He felt like he wanted to convey a certain message and so he made the novel dark and scary so that the message was easier to distinguish.

Mood: how the reader feels. The atmosphere or emotion created – violent, depressed, hopeless, stunned, eerie, unsafe, tense

The mood of this book is giving the reader the message of how evil mankind can be. It is a depressing, dark, treacherous, sinister thing that lives inside man. William Golding does a really good job conveying that because he is so descriptive with every single event that happens. Sometime I would get the chills when reading certain parts. Although some parts of the book were almost serene, for example Simons murder. It was extremely eerie but it was peaceful the way the narrator described his dead body floating in water.