Setting Flashcards
Paradise - Chapter 1 #1
‘Here was a coral island. Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy’s ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.’
Paradise - Chapter 1 #2
‘The shore was fledged with palm trees… green feathers were a hundred feet up in the air.
Paradise - Chapter 1 #3
‘the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.’
Paradise - Chapter 1 #4
‘He picked his way to the seaward edge of the platform and stood looking down into the water. It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral.’
Paradise - Chapter 3
‘The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers….Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island.”’
Castle Rock - Chapter 1
‘There, where the island petered out in the water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.’
Castle Rock (the entry) - Chapter 6
‘an impenetrable tangle of creepers and trees.’
Castle Rock - Chapter 7
‘the ceaseless, bulging passage of the deep sea waves.’
Castle Rock - notes
- boys assume the beast must be here - where Piggy dies.
- if the beast is the darkness of man - where beast ends up residing.
Island General - notes
- boys take advantage of naturally occuring structures to impose their own systems:
- mountain - fire
- platform - meeting
- lagoon - swimming
- beaches - building huts
Island General - Chapter 8 Ralph and Piggy are deciding whether or not to go to Jack’s feast.
‘High up among the bulging clouds thunder went off like a gun.’
Island General - Chapter 8
‘Up in the cloud canyons the thunder boomed again.’
Island General - Chapter 9 - dance prior to Simon’s death.
‘The dark sky was shattered by a blue-white scar. An instant later the noise was on them like the blow of a gigantic whip. The chant rose a tone in agony.’
Island General - more notes
- forest - danger
- lagoon - excitement
- sea - isolation
