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Foreshadowing In Lord Of The Flies

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William Golding worked as a literature teacher before entering the British Navy during World War I and II, Golding based Lord of the Flies off the destruction and events from his own experiences in war. Though the boys were not in war they still had to survive on an island alone with their intrusive thoughts. As demonstrated through the foreshadowing of traumatic events, motif with repetition of actions, and imagery of the after effects of destruction, shows how the impulse to destroy can affect life physically and mentally William shows the impulse to destroy with foreshadowing from the beginning. When the boys first arrived on the island they climbed to the top of a pink granite mountain and started a huge bonfire on impulse, starting a forest …show more content…

Simon, Roger, Jack, and Ralph go on an expedition to determine if they were on an island instead of a continent and happened to stumble upon a pink granite mountain. The boys spotted a boulder on the cliff and couldn’t resist the temptation to throw it off the edge, “The great rock...moved through the air,” (Golding 28). The boys knew that if they pushed the rock off the mountain the destruction it would cause would be great but could not resist. The second time Jack, Simon, and Samneric push a boulder off “Castle Rock” (Golding 174), they are distracted by a large boulder close to the edge but cannot help but acknowledge the opportunity to experience bliss out of this random act of destruction as they “heav[e]” a large boulder that caused the platform to “crack” and roll into foliage of the jungle (Golding 107). The third time Roger pushes a boulder off “Castle Rock” again, during Jack’s and Ralph’s feud about Jack stealing Piggy’s specs, but Roger does not push the rock off for his amusement instead to kill Ralph only he misses and strikes unaware Piggy below, “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee;” (Golding 181&174). The boys repeatably throw rocks off mountains with intention for destruction, this shows how the impulse to destroy affects them mentally slowly gravitating from making scars in the Earth to taking a

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The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee;” (Golding 141). Ralph was able to avoid the rock but Piggy couldn’t. If Piggy could avoid the rock he wouldn’t have died. Much like Simon, his weakness not only held him back from being with the group but caused the end of their lives. The author of, The Age of Reason, stated “a child who is simply born bad” (Sachs).

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