16. tense · Immediate past setting (time) · Near future setting (place) · A deserted tropical island protagonist · Ralph major conflict · Free from the rules that adult society formerly imposed on them, the boys marooned on the island struggle with the conflicting human instincts that exist within each of them—the instinct to work toward civilization and order and the instinct to descend into savagery, violence, and chaos. themes · Civilization vs. savagery; the loss of innocence; innate human evil motifs · Biblical parallels; natural beauty; the bullying of the weak by the strong; the outward trappings of savagery (face paint, spears, totems, chants) symbols · The conch shell; Piggy’s glasses; the signal fire; the beast; the Lord of the Flies; Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, and Roger
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18. A plane carrying British school boys is mistaken for a military craft and shot down.
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20. Characters continued… Simon – shy, sensitive boy in the group. Simon, in some ways the only naturally “good” character on the island, behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community SamnEric– pair of twins closely allied with Ralph; Sam and Eric are always together, and the other boys often treat them as a single entity, calling them “Samneric.” Roger -- Jack’s “lieutenant.” A sadistic, cruel older boy who brutalizes the littluns Littluns– the younger boys on the island, who cry at night and are afraid of the beastie Lord of the Flies -- The name given to the sow’s head that Jack’s gang impales on a stake and erects in the forest as an offering to the “beast.”
23. How about this for TV? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1048402/How-Channel-4-strands-children-island-real-life-Lord-Flies.html?printingPage=true
24. Golding’s Message “The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature.”
