The film adaption of the novel is unique. Right away in the film, the first difference is about the characters, “‘We're English, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things’” (33). In the movie, all of the boys are American cadets while in the novel they are English schoolboys. Another spot to notice is that Ralph’s arm also appears to be wounded but in the novel all the boys are well. On the screen, it reveals the settings as a beautiful island but the text describes it as, “The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar”
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The boys cast a vote for their leader, “‘Vote for chief!... ‘Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I'm chief then.’”(17). Unlike the novel where Ralph is voted as chief by the everyone, his high military ranking made him leader of the group on the screen. In the novel, the conch is a powerful tool which sets Ralph apart from others showing his stability and order while in the film the conch has little to no meaning. Another contrast is about the beast and the development of it. The movie hints it when Jack is telling a scary story to the boys around the fire making everyone feel uneasy and tense, however, the author expresses that it comes from the imagination of the littleuns or the smallest kids in the group. The beast in the movie is mistaken by the littleuns when they stab Jack in the cave while in the book the twin stumbles upon it as they notices the dead parachuter in the tree. At the ending, a helicopter flies by close to the island but in the book a ship passes by and the Captain appears on the shore for the first time when Ralph stumbles upon
The boys cast a vote for their leader, “‘Vote for chief!... ‘Who wants me?’ Every hand outside the choir except Piggy's was raised immediately. Then Piggy, too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air. Ralph counted. ‘I'm chief then.’”(17). Unlike the novel where Ralph is voted as chief by the everyone, his high military ranking made him leader of the group on the screen. In the novel, the conch is a powerful tool which sets Ralph apart from others showing his stability and order while in the film the conch has little to no meaning. Another contrast is about the beast and the development of it. The movie hints it when Jack is telling a scary story to the boys around the fire making everyone feel uneasy and tense, however, the author expresses that it comes from the imagination of the littleuns or the smallest kids in the group. The beast in the movie is mistaken by the littleuns when they stab Jack in the cave while in the book the twin stumbles upon it as they notices the dead parachuter in the tree. At the ending, a helicopter flies by close to the island but in the book a ship passes by and the Captain appears on the shore for the first time when Ralph stumbles upon