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The Changes Influenced by the Forest
“Time in the forest could perhaps be interpreted as a period of personal development. A rite of passage perhaps?” (Gaunt 2). This portion of the article describes the true change that can occur in the forest leaving such an impression on those who experience it, that it in a sense is a rite of passage. The forest has many figurative and literal symbols within it. Many authors choose to include a forest as one of there settings or only setting of their novel or short story and for each author it is chosen for a specific aspect that the forest can represent. Within many texts including, Fahrenheit 451, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Lord of the Flies, lies a forest, in some cases an enchanted forest while

In the society within the novel, many are on the verge of being illiterate because of the ban on books this circumscribes the society. This ban on books runs this dystopian society, restricting lives of the people, distorting jobs, and changing the way of thinking. Montags new group within the forest transcribe books to memory to keep them within the society. Within the forest of Fahrenheit 451 lies Granger and his group, and Montag’s safe haven, “... we're the odd minority crying in the wilderness. When the war's over, perhaps we can be of some use in the world... We'll pass the books on to our children, by word of mouth, and let our children wait, in turn, on the other people. A lot will be lost that way, of course. But you can't make people listen,”(Bradbury 146) . This explains the fact that the forest is the place where Montag and his group reside, the group that carries the books, without them all books are lost to society. In this case without the forest there is no way the society can change, because without it there would be no group and no memories books. “I want to see everything now. And while none of it will be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather

The dangers that trigger the changes within the forest aren’t external, they’re internal. The only thing they have to fight is the savagery that dwells with in each of us or at least according to Golding within all children. In the novel, there are three main characters which are all representative of parts of the subconscious, Jack the id, Ralph the ego, and Piggy the superego. From the our first introduction of each boy we figure out who they really are and what they represent. Piggy, representative of the superego of the society, ascribes to his aunt to link back to what society was. Jack, the id and leader of the choir boys, introduces himself with the pseudonym of Merridew.Ralph, who is the ego of the island, is the mix of Piggy and Jack, trying to keep balance between the two. Towards the end of the book, Jack and the boys are in their true savage state and try to obliterate Ralph by smoking him out. At first Jack says, “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things,” (Golding 42), but soon he is the one who believes that there are no rules in the sense that they can do whatever they want even though it is under Jacks rule. This explains the fact that at the beginning of the book where the struggle for power between Ralph and Jack really