Lord of the Flies – Island Description

(the following are quotes based of Lord of the Flies)

  1. The lagoon/ pool that Ralph swam in on the first chapter
  • “But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be
    dark green” (14)

2. The beach

  • “The tide was low and there was a strip of weed-strewn beach that was almost as firm as a road” (33)

3. Mountain cliff/rocks

  • “…his eyes and followed the jagged outline of the crags up toward the mountain.
    This part of the beach was nearer the mountain than any other that
    they had seen.”(33)

4. Island
“He was surrounded on all sides by chasms of empty air, nowhere to hide, even if one did not have to go on… the sea would make an island of the castle” (144).

5. Lagoon
“On the right hand was the lagoon, troubled by the open sea” (144) .

6. Sea

“That is a reef out in the sea”(2).

7. 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” (39)

8. Beach

Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and a lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high. The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass”(6).

9. <The sound of the shell>”The shore was fledged with palm trees.”

10. <Fire on the mountain>”we are on an island. We’ve been on the mountain-top and seen water all round.”

11. 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.”(27)

(it’s upside down…WHOOPS)

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