The mountain

– “Every point of the mountain held up trees- flowers and trees” (Golding 39).

– “They were on the lip of the circular hollow in the side of the mountain. This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest. The air was thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, and settling. Beyond the holloe was a square top of the mountain and soon they were standing on it”(Golding 37).

The Coral Reef

– “The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. The coral was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had finished” (Golding 38).

The Lagoon

– “Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake—blue of all shades and shadowy
green and purple” (Golding 10).

The Scar

–  “Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea” (Golding 39).

The Fruit trees

– “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.” (page 77)

The Beach

– “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.” (Golding 13)

– ‘The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.” (Golding 13)

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 decent, 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 the water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion”(Golding 38)

The Cliff

– “The most unusual future of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted y 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.”