Lord of the Flies1(Cani.You)

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Independent & Mirror Novel Study Unit

Name: Cani. You

Novel Title & Author:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Chapter1-6

Cani .You

Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell

Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain

Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach

Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair

Chapter 5: Beast From Water

Chapter 6: Beast from Air

Synopsis:

A plane evacuating British boys has been shot down in the Pacific. The boys survive from the plane and have landed on a remote island. With no adult supervision, they attempt to live by themselves. They select Ralph as the chief and he selects Jack, a militant choir bully, to rule over the choir, who become hunters.

Piggy finds a conch shell and shows Ralph how to blow it. The sound of the shell calls the boys together for assemblies and to discuss important matter .They use Piggy's glasses to light the fire. The fire is as a rescue signal .The fire rages out of control. One of the little boys die of the fire.

Jack addicts to hunt pigs. Ralph and Simon and everyone work as usual. Jack paints his face for hunting. He leads the boys on a hunting expedition. The fire is gone out as a ship passed by although Ralph try his best to protect it. Jack and the hunters bring a pig back. Ralph was angry, he argues with Jack and announces a meeting.

Ralph tries to set things in order. Someone bring up the beast, one of the boy thinks the beast comes from the water. Simon says the beast is themselves.

A plane is shot down high above as the children sleep. A dead parachutist lands on the island, stuck in the rocks and trees. The boy sees the dead parachutist and mistakes it for the beast. The boys hunt for the beast. After not finding the beast, Ralph notices the fire is extinguished again. Nobody care it, especially Jack, seem to care......

Character introduced:

Ralph: Round character and protagonist. Twelve-year-old. He has fair hair and is very tall and thin. The leader of the group of boys. He is the conscious boy and knows what to do and how to do(light the fire as a rescue signal).

Jack: Dynamic character and antagonist. One of the older boys stranded on the island. The leader of the hunters. Tall, thin and bony, red hair and always wear a black cap. His face is ugly. He has good leadership skills but he takes the wrong turning, uses bad means to get what he wants.

Piggy: Ralph's supporter. Short and very fat. A clever and intellectual boy, know how to do, but without leadership skills.

Simon:Flat character. He is a skinny, shy and sensitive boy with straight, coarse black hair.

Point of view:The narrator speaks in the third person, It means the narrator is omniscient .I think author wants us to know and understand the characters' s psychological changes better. And author uses the third people, the narrator focus on the protagonist Ralph, to strengthen reader's thoughts that Ralph is justice and Jack is evil.

Setting:Time: World War2. Place:On a deserted island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Author sets the place on a deserted island, it means the boys without the adults and any help, they have to help themselves to survival by themselves. And they are the children, have not changed by the society yet,so they can express completely the justice and evil are from the humans inside and the natural of the human. This novel also reflects World War2, the cruel of the war and the people change to savage and loss their mind.

Notable about the writer's style:Golding uses a relatively straightforward writing style in Lord of the Flies. Lord of Flies is allegorical, It means the characters and objects in the novel are infused with symbolic significance that conveys the novel’s central themes and ideas.

Statement of themes:

In the first quarter of this book, the novel describes the cruel environment and the boys eager to be rescued. The invisible feud and the different minds between Ralph and Jack.