Lord of the Flies – Island Description
The following is physical setting examples found to describe the island in Lord of the Flies
Scar – “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.”
Shape of the Island – “It was roughly boat-shaped”
Rock – “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” (13)
Lagoon – “The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon”(13)
Jungle – “overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea”(90)
The Beach – “The beach between the palm terrace”
The forest – “The skirts of the forest and the scar were familiar”
The Signal Fire – “Roger pointed down the unfriendly side. ‘They were there–by the sea.’”
Shore – “The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or re- clined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air.”(Page 10)
Forest Rock – ”The most unusual future of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted a skewed block: and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.”