It's World War II and a plane filled with school boys fleeing their country is shot down and land on an Island with no adults to guide them whatsoever, nothing could go wrong, right? In Lord of the Flies by William Golding a allegory the airplane crashes onto the Island and leaving fiery path unlike the movie , where instead of crashing into the island it crashes in the ocean. FIre has a bigger role in the book than water unlike the movie where water is more dominate.
In the beginning of the book the airplane crashes in the island setting a huge chunk of it on fire, destroying an untainted world who knows no evil. This was like the garden of Eden a haven for the life that lived on the Island but was scared and destroyed by the flames. This is when fire starts to play a big role to the children, instead of making it a tool for survival they made it a tool for destruction.
As the boys try and figure out how to get of the island Ralph comes up with the idea of starting a signal fire so that they could be rescued, but as soon as the word fire was out of Ralph’s mouth everyone …show more content…
In most cultures water symbolises life and rebirth. This fact is proven true when the boys start their own civilization where they make their own laws and jobs.
After the boys go to sleep hungry, tired, and thirsty Simon wakes up and goes find water. Exstatic the boys run to the water source and drink it from the lake not caring enough to care if it's dirty or contaminated. When the boys find water it’s a source of hope for them showing how everything will be fine because if they have water they can live.
In both the movie and the book fire and water importance was never the same for which one was more important to the other. For fire and its destruction was the main role in the book while water had the bigger role in the
In the beginning of the book the airplane crashes in the island setting a huge chunk of it on fire, destroying an untainted world who knows no evil. This was like the garden of Eden a haven for the life that lived on the Island but was scared and destroyed by the flames. This is when fire starts to play a big role to the children, instead of making it a tool for survival they made it a tool for destruction.
As the boys try and figure out how to get of the island Ralph comes up with the idea of starting a signal fire so that they could be rescued, but as soon as the word fire was out of Ralph’s mouth everyone …show more content…
In most cultures water symbolises life and rebirth. This fact is proven true when the boys start their own civilization where they make their own laws and jobs.
After the boys go to sleep hungry, tired, and thirsty Simon wakes up and goes find water. Exstatic the boys run to the water source and drink it from the lake not caring enough to care if it's dirty or contaminated. When the boys find water it’s a source of hope for them showing how everything will be fine because if they have water they can live.
In both the movie and the book fire and water importance was never the same for which one was more important to the other. For fire and its destruction was the main role in the book while water had the bigger role in the