by Curtis Bryan
Chapter Four: Lord of the Flies
Transform the following words into a story that is exciting and leads the reader into a world far, far away from beautiful downtown Bridgenorth and the suburbs of Ennismore.
PLEASURE BRIGHT STARK IMPENDING
DUCKED SLEEPING GLITTERING BLATANT
STUNTED MIRAGE SHARKS ILLUSIONS
MIRACULOUS OPALESCENCE SUBSIDED
Plus, your group must use at least two new and highly unusually descriptive words from the internationally recognized word machine, aka THE DICTIONARY.
EACH GROUP HAS 10 MINUTES TO PREPARE THEIR EPISTLE.
1. Why does Golding spend so much time describing the setting at the start of chapter four? Is he transforming this setting into a Club Med experience or something entirely different? Explore.
2. How are the stars presented in the second paragraph? Why?
3. What is the routine of a littlun? Why would Golding describe the young kids first?
4. Why does Maurice feel the need to formulate an excuse?
5. Why are we given the situation between Roger and Henry?
6. What does this excerpt mean, “a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin”?
7. How does Ralph respond to Piggy’s suggestion about a clock? Why?
8. Why does Ralph say, “Oh God, oh God”?
9. How does Golding create tension between Jack and Ralph?
10. How is Piggy turned into the victim? Both symbolically and in terms of the plot? Why?
11. How does Ralph win a battle with Jack by just using words?
12. Who has more power at the end of the chapter, Ralph or Jack? Why?
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William Golding, September 17, 1954
"On this day in 1954 William Golding's first novel, The Lord of the Flies, was published. It was rejected by twenty-one publishers and poorly-reviewed, but by the 60s it was a cult novel and a career-maker. If it confirms Golding's view that "man produces evil as a bee produces honey," it is not the whole story"I am a universal pessimist but a cosmic optimist," he said in his Nobel Acceptance Speech.