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Lord of the Flies Study Guide Questions

Chapter 1

Setting: The combination of place and time that provides the general background for the characters and plot of a literary work is the story’s setting. Describe the setting of Lord of the Flies. What is “the scar”? Why does Golding choose that word? Focus on the descriptions. Compare the forest to the beach; the lightness to the darkness. What overall mood is set by these descriptions?

Answer 1

Allegorically, the uninhabited tropical island represents the Garden of Eden. ... In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the group of boys are on their way home when their plane crashes near a deserted island. The island is described in Chapter 1.

The scar Golding referred to in the "cut" in the Earth from the plane crashing.

Golding calls it a scar because the boys here will never forget their time on the island. It's a constant reminder of the crash and the events that occurred while they were there.

, the symbolic use of color conveys the innocence and the evil on the island, as well as each of the boys' personalities. The contrasting light and dark colors in the book symbolize the goodness and evil, the lighter colors symbolizing the boys' innocence and morals, the darker colors representing the darkness on the island and in the boys' minds and hearts.

The theme of savagery, evil, and darkness is a reoccurring element of Lord of the Flies