Patterns In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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that have repeated over centuries of text, video, and art. Symbols give a reader something to remember in a situation. These symbols create memories that grab onto a reader’s emotions and previous life experiences, drawing them in and urging them to think. Patterns include a familiar order of events that the reader can rely on to repeat most of the time. With these three combined, a reader can see past the details of an intricate or highly complicated story and look to the basic familiar ideas of it to remember another story, connect it’s symbols to another symbol, and even predict the ending of a story.
As an avid reader, I have found that reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding and paying attention to the symbolism really helps someone

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