LOTF Commentary Journal

“All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.”

The scar represents the destruction of man of this world, or the island. The war outside of the island created this scar. World War II is going on and a bomb probably was dropped on the island to create the spot. This representation is part of the big allegory of our life and the damage we make.

“The shore was fledged with palm trees. These stood or leaned or reclined against the light and their green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air…Behind this was the darkness of the forest….”
Golding was trying to achieve the idea of the beach as being good and the forest and jungle being bad. Nothing bad happens on the beach but fun or meetings. In the jungle is where the killing and the fighting happens. He is just foreshadowing where good things are going to happen and where bad things are going to happen.

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