Lit Analysis 1

The book I have read for this literary analysis is Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

1. A plane evacuating a group of school boys is shot down and crashes into a tropical island. The boys evacuate the plane and begin to make a tribe out of themselves, electing a leader, planning a way to be rescued, and hunting food as well. At first what seems like a fun idea of living on their own and not having parent supervision turns the complete opposite. The group of boys eventually split up and form another tribe, both tribes becoming enemies and trying to kill each other, and usually succeeding at it. After a plot of killing a tribe member by filling up an area with smoke, a British naval officer come and rescue the boys, who have become traumatized over what they have done to one another.

2. A theme present in the story is "survival of the fittest". For the story is mainly about the boys on the island trying to survive.

3. The author had a bit of a serious, straight-forward tone in the story

"He was shorter than the other boy and very fat"

"The fat boy looked startled"

"He dived in the sand at Piggy's feet and lay there laughing"

4. The story contains a high usage of imagery used to describe things or situations

"The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon"

1. The story itself only has one example of direct characterization, the rest of the characters aren't really characterized in the novel. But a character that is briefly characterized is the character, Ralph.

"He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward."

2. The author has no change in syntax when focusing on certain a character or characters, since the author's tone remains constant throughout the story

3. It wasn't really a certain character, but it was characters that were dynamic. In the beginning, all of the boys were just innocent school kids that were just getting to know each other on the island, but they later became hateful killers toward each other

4. I didn't really get the feeling of getting to know a character well enough in the story, to be honest