Lord of the Flies Simons Death
It was a dark scary night. Nothing could be clearly seen. Loud thunder roared as thick drops of rain fell on the ground. Nothing could be heard but the sound of thunder. A group of agitated and aggressive boys danced with fear and excitement. Golding creates a certain atmosphere under which anything could happen. After the death, even the boys don't understand what had happened on that forbidding night. Piggy sums up all reasons for the death of Simon when he later says, "It was dark. There was that - that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We were scared." Golding convinces his audience that the killing of Simon is credible by using an obscure setting, mob action, and the dance.The night was dark and so it was hard to see clearly and it was thundering so it was hard to hear anything. Golding uses this particular night for the murder of Simon, to make the murder seem credible. It was a frightening setting and the boys were scared and to lessen their fears, the boys started to dance and chant. The setting was responsible for the boys turning into a scared and restless mob. "Between the flashes of lightening the air was dark and terrible." The setting is so terrifying that it even causes Ralp
h and Piggy to join the group "under the threat of the sky." When Simon crawls out of the forest, Golding uses the word "thing", "it," or a "beast" to describe Simon. Golding is the ominous, all-knowing, narrator, yet he even uses such words, instead of Simon's name, to heighten our fears and to increase the obscurity of the gloomy night. The audience, at first doesn't know for sure if it is Simon, who has crawled out of the forest and so at that point it seems credible for the boys to beat up on something that resembles a beast. To describe Simon's arrival, Golding says, "It came darkly, uncertainly." The group of boys turned into a mob and it is more believable to imagine a mob, which has gotten out of control, to commit a murder than to imagine a sensible character like Ralph to take part in the committing of a murder. When it started to rain and thunder, "A wave of restlessness set the boys swaying and moving aimlessly." The picture of the agitated group swaying shows a mob starting to form. All the boys were petrified of the storm and even "Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take place I this demented but partly secure society." This shows that all the boys joined together into a mob instead of a scattered group to lessen the fear and insecurity. After the mention of Piggy and Ralph i
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Approximate Word count = 900
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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