Lord Of The Flies Rhetorical Analysis

What would you do if you ended up stranded on an island with only a group of young boys and no adults? This is the conflict that is presented to us in The Lord of the Flies. In the excerpt, Ralph is hiding from another group of boys who are looking to kill him. Ralph fears for his life that his hiding spot will be found. The central idea that the author is trying to convey to us is Ralph’s struggle for his life, hiding and running from the hunters. William Golding does an excellent job at further demonstrating Ralph's fight for life through the use of imagery. An example of Golding's use of imagery was when he wrote “The seconds lengthened. Ralph looked straight into the savage's eyes. Don't scream. You'll get back to it. Now he's seen you.

His legs straightened, the screams continued and foamed. He shot forward, burst the thicket, was in the open, screaming, snarling, bloody.” (Lines 21-32). Here we see Ralph’s thoughts when hiding from the other boys who are trying to kill him. We can see Ralph telling himself not to get scared, but eventually gets scared and runs for his life. The use of auditory imagery by Golding helps us further hear how scared Ralph is and see how hard he is fighting to stay alive. Golding used words such as fright, anger, desperation, continuous, and foaming to describe Ralph’s scream that helps us feel and hear his fight for survival to the fullest extent. Golding again uses imagery when he writes “They were all running, all crying out madly. He could hear them crashing in the undergrowth and on the left was the hot, bright thunder of the fire.” (Lines 35-36). As Ralph is being chased by the hunters, we experience what he hears “crying out madly” and “crashing in the undergrowth”. We can also feel and see the hot and bright thunder of the fire. This helps the reader understand and visualize what is happening to Ralph and how much struggle he is going through to save himself from the