Lord Of The Flies Passage Analysis

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I would like to inform you that the book we are currently reading in our English curriculum, Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is perfect for 10th graders to read. Although it contains difficult interpreting symbolism, plots that rise and fall within each chapter, and metamorphic characterization, the students can learn on behalf from pulling key ideas from the book. I hereby claim that this book, Lord of the Flies, is the impeccable book for 10th graders to seep in the idea of civilization and savagery. When students start reading, they adequately realize the usage of Golding’s symbolism throughout the book. When the boys first arrived on the island, Golding makes a foreshadowing when “within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along….Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing” (19). From this passage, students are likely to see Jack as the “beast” to come later in the book when he first set foot on the island. Like Freud, he stated that humans are naturally …show more content…

This is just like the moment when I am about to take a test and my heart is beating so fast; but, once I am done, the relief feels very good. Just as something is about to rise and the boys are in mere danger, the ferocity dies down again and a whole new scene begins in the next chapter. For instance, it went from "the beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face....At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, and tore" (153), to "Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea" (154). This is a dramatic incident where the murder of a fellow friend took place in order ¬¬to realizing the boys'

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