The Island
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- The Island
- Paradise
- The island is unchartered and untouched by humans.
- It is separated from the destructive nature of humans.
- There is no civilisation on the island.
- The boys sink into the primal habits of wild animals as they spend more time on the island.
- The island isn't as amazing as it first seems.
- The boys sink into the primal habits of wild animals as they spend more time on the island.
- 'water drew to a point at infinity'
- There is fruit growing.
- 'Flower and fruit grew on the same tree'
- 'Everywhere was the scent of ripeness'
- Biblical link to Adam & Eve and the forbidden fruit.
- Could foreshadow sin.
- 'Snake clasp' on Ralph's belt.
- Could foreshadow sin.
- The island is unchartered and untouched by humans.
- The ocean
- Represents life and death.
- Creatures live in the ocean
- 'Tiny transparencies that came questing in with the water'
- The ocean has brought new life to the island.
- 'Tiny transparencies that came questing in with the water'
- Piggy and Simon's bodies are washed away by the sea.
- 'The sea breathed in again in a long, slow sigh........ the body of Piggy was gone.'
- Creatures live in the ocean
- Isolates the boys from society
- 'faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned'
- Represents life and death.
- Hell
- Paradise
- The island is unchartered and untouched by humans.
- It is separated from the destructive nature of humans.
- There is no civilisation on the island.
- The boys sink into the primal habits of wild animals as they spend more time on the island.
- The island isn't as amazing as it first seems.
- The boys sink into the primal habits of wild animals as they spend more time on the island.
- 'water drew to a point at infinity'
- There is fruit growing.
- 'Flower and fruit grew on the same tree'
- 'Everywhere was the scent of ripeness'
- Biblical link to Adam & Eve and the forbidden fruit.
- Could foreshadow sin.
- 'Snake clasp' on Ralph's belt.
- Could foreshadow sin.
- The island is unchartered and untouched by humans.
- Heat
- 'Always, almost visible, was the heat.'
- 'The heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight.'
- Fruit
- 'They were now used to the stomach aches and a sort of chronic diarrhea.'
- The things that at first made the island like a paradise have become hellish.
- 'They were now used to the stomach aches and a sort of chronic diarrhea.'
- 'There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.''
- The boys will be unable to grow their own food.
- Foreshadows need to hunt and kill.
- Subtle themes of death early on in the book.
- The trees have died and made the boys' lives easier.
- Idea of killing for the greater good.
- Foreshadows need to hunt and kill.
- Idea of killing for the greater good.
- The trees have died and made the boys' lives easier.
- The boys will be unable to grow their own food.
- Paradise
- Death
- 'There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.''
- The boys will be unable to grow their own food.
- Subtle themes of death early on in the book.
- The trees have died and made the boys' lives easier.
- Idea of killing for the greater good.
- Idea of killing for the greater good.
- The trees have died and made the boys' lives easier.
- The boys will be unable to grow their own food.
- 'Decaying coconuts and palm saplings'.
- Coconuts are fruits and they have good connotations- nutrition etc, but they are dead.
- Saplings are young trees. They represent new life but they are dead.
- Destruction of innocence?
- Coconuts are fruits and they have good connotations- nutrition etc, but they are dead.
- Destruction of innocence?
- Early introduction of themes of death normalises it and foreshadows later events.
- However there is fruit present on the island that isn't dead.
- Humans and animals living on the island are still able to survive until they are hunted by each other.
- Theme of death as a greater purpose- they are kept alive so that they can be killed by each other.
- Humans and animals living on the island are still able to survive until they are hunted by each other.
- 'There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.''
- Paradise
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