Monday, September 20, 2010

LOTF-Journal #3

Even though there were many reoccurring themes one of the most important, I think, is that fear is within. It's just mental and it can only be conquered mentally. It's not physical, like the boys thought, there was no beast. They created the idea of the beast to hide that they truly are just scared to be stuck on an island.
Two ways that William Golding developed this theme is through characters and through the setting. First, he used the littluns, and had them be the ones crying and tell the older boys that there was a beast. They were the ones that helped start the idea of the beast. Also he used the setting, it was always dark when the beast appeared, which helped disguise what was really out there, which made the boys unknowledgable about what was really going on. This frighten Ralph and Jack. So when they went to find the beast on the mountain and it was dark which cause them to be more afraid, they didn't want to get close to it and because of that the fear remained. If they would have gotten closer they would have seen that it was just a parachutist trying to help them not scare them. I think that the boys if they were older would have realized that there was no beast, but because they were young and stilled had their parent around when they were scared and had never really been on their own, they were just confused and didn't know what to do.

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