Mrs Dewey
English 1A
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Within novel The Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the author, using imagery places the timing of the death of one of his characters, Simon, at an important place in the story to prove his point about mankind and their natural state of mind. Nearing the end of the novel weather is used to create the feeling of drama by making the story involve gloom and imprint that idea into a reader's mind like “great bulging towers [of clouds] that sprouted away over the island . . . The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed [out] tormenting heat” (151). This creates a sense drama purposely telling the reader something bad is about to happen. Now at this point ,Simon, a character in many ways is sane