(Our vision of how we portray the island through quotes in the novel).

Coral Reef:

“Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the sea was dark blue” (4).

Bathing pool:

“Some act of God – a typhoon perhaps… had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool.. with a high ledge of pink granite” (7).

Shore:

“The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air” (4).

Beach:

“The beach between the palm terrace and the water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost invisible, was the heat” (4).

Mountain :

“rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter” ( 113).

Jungle:

“Ralph disentangled himself cautiously and stole away through the branches. In a few seconds the fat boy’s grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon. He climbed over a broken trunk and was out of the jungle” (10).

Platform:

“Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees”(13).

Forest:

“Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture” (77).

Scar:

“Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar”. (Golding 4).

The Island:

“It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion” (Golding 26).