Book report V5 by Marieke van Diemen
Table of contents
Preliminary details………………………………………………………………………………………………..page 3
Characters…………………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 3
Setting………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….page 4
Conflict…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………page 4
Journal………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… page 5
Poem…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… page 6
Letter………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. page 7
Glossary………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. page 8
Preliminary details
Title: Lord of the flies
Author: William Golding
Date of publication: 1954
Number of pages: 288
Noteworthy: Lord of the flies is William Golding’s first novel and by writing it he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Characters
All characters in the book are boys aged from as young as 6 a.k.a. the littluns, up to the age of 12 a.k.a. the biguns. The reader does not know how many boys are present on the island because they never counted how many there were. The reader does get a lot of names throughout the story: Johnny, Bill, Jack, Piggy, Ralph, Sam, Eric, Percival, Simon, Maurice, Walter, Robert, Roger, Harold and Henry.
Ralph is the main character. He is tall compared to the others, he has fair hair and he is handsome. Ralph is the leader of all boys. His father works in the navy. Ralph is a round character. His strength is to speech and to keep thinking ahead and be sensible. He is the first boy to be introduced in the book. At first Ralph doesn’t seem to care too much about what’s happening. But when things start to go wrong he feels terribly miserable and he starts to blame himself for the happened events, such as the murder of Simon.
Piggy is next in line: he is shorter than Ralph and quite fat. Piggy’s best friend during the book is Ralph. His real name is not piggy but because of his body mass everybody refers to him as piggy, and before that as fatty. He does not like the other boys to call him names, it hurts his feelings. The reader doesn’t get to know his real name. Piggy wears glasses and has asthma. He talks with a funny accent. This is something Piggy said to give you an idea: ‘There isn’t more than a ha’porth of meat in a crab.’ The other boys do not take him seriously, despite that he is the smartest of them all. When piggy feels threatened, he turns to Ralph for help.
The Boy who is most disrespectful towards him is named Jack Merridew. He has red hair, and a crumpled, freckled ugly face. His eyes are light blue and his body is bony. He is the leader of some other boys such as Simon, Maurice and Robert. Together they are the choir boys and Jack is the chapter chorister. Of all the boys Jack is the most savage of them all. Because of this characteristic he and Ralph sometimes clash, as Ralph always tries to remain sensible. At first Jack couldn’t bear to murder a pig but after a while he can’t think of anything else. He also became much more rude and insurgent. Because this change in personality Jack is a round character.
Simon is a good friend of Ralph. He is skinny and had black hair that reaches till his eyes. It’s coarse and straight and hangs down. Simon is always nervous when talking to the whole group of boys. According to Jack he faints a lot. Ralph thinks he is vivid and Ralph can get along with him quite good. I think Simon is a bright boy with lots of sense. But throughout the book he remains quite the same so he is a flat character.
The rest of the boys are not very determining for the story plot. I know that Sam and Eric are twins, Percival is crying a lot and Roger is a mean kid. He destroys other kid’s sand castles for example.
Setting
place
The boys were in an airplane, which crashed right on an island in the middle of the pacific ocean. It’s called coral island. Coral Island has the shape of a boat and contains a mountain with one square shaped summit. From side to side of the boat shape the mountain has a steep slope and along the long side of the island is a tamer slope. At the end of the boat is another island, much smaller. The boys call it the fort, as it is completely made out of pink rock. The bigger island is covered in trees, amongst them are palm trees and different kinds of fruit trees. There are also rocks, all of them are pink. Between the dense forest pink rocks can be seen from the mountain. The Island also has cliffs, one of them is covered in blue flowers. On the beach is also a platform of pink rock were tiny palm saplings can grow. Once they get bigger they die and fall due to the lack of soil. Near the platform is a lagoon where the boys often swim. The wildlife on coral islands contains of pigs and bright little birds and supposedly also insects. Surrounding the island is a beach and a coral reef. The coral reef looks like an aquarium and lies parallel to the beach, with a mile between them. Beyond it was dark blue sea that reached until the horizon. On the island it is hot due to the sun and in the forest the air is oppressive. At night the island gets cold.
Time
The year in which the story takes place is unknown. The story is written in past tense. Both day and night are described in the book, but the night parts very briefly. During the story I got the impression that there could be a few days that were skipped, but not so many. I think the time described in the book reaches out over about 20 days.
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