“The boy with the fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead.” (Golding; 7). William Golding plunges into the novel with detailing the first character after the crash. As the intellectual goes further on into the story, he/she get more of a mental picture as they imagine each scene. Golding’s chosen characters are children, and he is stupendous at inventing the perfect dialogue to match each character's’ age. The author is capable of getting the reader to really get the wave of various emotions thrown onto them throughout this amazing novel. In “Chapter …show more content…
He grasps the reader’s attention with ease, and it creates a greater mental image of what these young boys are discovering as they discover more of the island that they have crashed on, the intellectual will follow through, and it always led to an unexpected result. Golding brought in diction with how he jots down the dialogue of the boys, as well as how he keeps each boy’s sayings age-appropriate. The author really has a great deal of detail as he goes deeper within the novel, so he gives the reader a sense of what the island looked like. In example, he described how the droppings, on page 49, looked, felt, and how they steamed. That really gets the reader more into the novel. Finally, there is imagery, the writer keeps the intellectual hooked to the story by supplying great detail in order to give an image. All in all, Lord of the Flies was an amazing novel, and has a great lesson that one can take in and use in reality. The author is capable of getting the reader to really get the wave of various emotions thrown onto them throughout this amazing