William Golding, author of Lord of the Flies, commonly uses imagery to give a visual image of settings, key points, and characters in his novel.Golding goes into great detail to paint a vivid picture of the scenery for the reader to visualize instead of just simply talking about the land he explains what the land looks like. “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.”(pg. 8) This was one of the first scenes Golding describes in the novel. Shortly after the plane crash you can see the self destruction the boys go through, the tone of the story is darker and more intense. “Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their
