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Lord of the Flies

Chapter 6 - Beast From Air

By: Fatima, Damion, Harpreet, Arvind, & Celeste

Notable Language

Literary Devices

Figurative Language

Personification:

  • "but there were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out" (page 104)
  • "Down, down, the waters went, whispering like the wind among the heads of the forest" (page 115)

Similes:

  • "The leaves were roaring like the sea" (page 108)

Symbolism

  • The beast - evil within the boys
  • The parachutist - evil within men who should be keeping civilization together
  • The conch - civilization and order
  • The signal fire - hope
  • Dramatic Irony - we know the beast does not exist but the boys do not know
  • Simile - "The spears of sharpened wood were like a fence"
  • Foreshadowing - the title "Beast From Air" hinted that a beast would be seen in the air
  • Allusion - "Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed"
  • tremulously - in a trembling, nervous, shaky or timid way
  • exasperation - irritation, frustration
  • incredulity - doubt about the truth of something; disbelief
  • diffidently - lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid
  • plinth - an architectural support or base
  • guano - the excrement of sea birds and bats

Passages

  • "Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall."
  • "Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity—a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric."

Summary

Characterization

-Chapter starts off with Ralph and Simon who went out one night and on the way back, Simon brought a littlun back to the shelters

- As the boys sleep, military airplanes battle above the island

- When SamnEric woke up, they saw twisted form of dead parachutist and mistake him for the beast

- They rush back to the camp and immediately had a meeting at which Sam and Eric tell the group that they saw the beast

- They set out, armed with wooden spears

- As they reach a part of the island that none of them has ever been to before, they saw a thin walkway

- The boys were afraid to cross so Ralph investigated alone

Ralph - twelve years old, elected leader, civilized on island, good-looking, athletic

Jack - leader of the hunters, wants to be the leader, bully, savage, and violent

Simon - sensitive shy boy, treated unfairly, connected with nature, does not get involved with Jack and Ralph

Piggy - smart, Ralph's "side man", innovative, the brains of Ralph's ideas

Roger - cruel, abusive, Jack's "side man", brutal

Sam and Eric - twins, allied with Ralph, together, excitable

Setting

Mountain Side: Sam and Eric tend to the fire and spot a dead parachutist and mistake it for the beast

Whose reality

Platform: Ralph calls an emergency meeting to discuss the sighting of the beast

Forest: Ralph, Jack, and the other hunters explore in attempt to find the beast

This story is presented during World War II. The boys who crashed on the island are all English, sophisticated, school boys who were being flown to another country for their safety. Since they all come from rich houses, it is really hard for them to survive on this island. If the story took place in today's time, the boys would have more resources and have a higher chance of being rescued. If the boys came from a more poor place, living on the island would not be a big struggle and they wold be surviving more easily.

Mountain-top: the boys began to push heavy rocks into the sea

Castle Rock: a fort-like cave where the boys suspected the beast resided

Questions

Lense #2:

Gender

  • Do you think that the other boys will start to believe that there is no beast?
  • Do you think that the boys should stop using the conch as Jack suggested? Why or why not?
  • Why do you think that the boys believed the twins without a doubt?
  • Why do you think that the boys and Jack ignored Ralph's orders at the end of the chapter?
  • Why do you think Ralph and Jack both insist on going after the beast?

Major Themes

Lense #1:

Biographical

Fear:

-When Sam and Eric saw the beast

-All the boys were terrified when the twins told them about the beast

-Biguns are afraid to go in thin walkway they find

Authority:

-Conch represented authority in beginning of book but now Jack challenges it

-"'We don't need the conch! We know who ought to say things"

- Jack and hunters challenge Ralph's authority at Castle Rock

Obviously, there are only boy characters in this story. This may have to do with the fact that this book was written in the 1950's when women were not treated as equally as men. At that time men were seen as more stronger and braver than women which might be the reason Goulding did not add girls in his story. If this story was written today, girls would definitely be included in the story because we know that women are perfectly capable of doing everything men do.

William Goulding taught in an English school for a while and also fought in World War II, these are two things that greatly affected the story. Because he had witnessed war right in front of him, he believed that humans are evil and society’s rules just suppress the demons within. He said that he saw what people were capable of doing and that if anyone in those years thought that man does not produce evil, he is surely blind. We can clearly see that his life experiences play a big role in how he wrote his book. If he did not participate in war, he may have been an optimistic man who didn't see the evil in people.

Some Minor Themes

  • Human Nature
  • Power Struggle

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