Re-read this passage from chapter 9. For extra credit, click on comment, and respond to the quote, or to a classmate's comments. You will have to sign your name to your comment, so that I can give credit to your response!
"The dark sky was shattered by a blue-white scar. […] ... The chant rose a tone in agony“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”Now out of the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind.“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”Again the blue-white scar jagged above them and the sulphurous explosion beat down. The littluns screamed and blundered about, fleeing from the edge of the forest, and one of them broke the ring of biguns in his terror.“Him! Him!”The circle became a horseshoe. A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe.“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”The blue-white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out something about a dead man on a hill.“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed. The beast was on its knees in the center, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws. (Chapter 9)
Answer one of the following questions: What are the boys doing here? What is literally happening? Why does the author use imager like "the tearing of teeth and claws?" Why does he use imagery like, "The sky was shattered by a blue-white scar?"
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Here is a sample comment: Reading this passage I was struck by how the kids all chant together. It seems that they don't act like individuals, but that they all follow each other. (From Mr. Anderson) Remember to leave your name when you post a response!)
ReplyDeleteThe boys in this chapter kill Simon, mistaking him for the beast. He was trying to tell them that there was the man from the parachute near the hill and that he was dead. He uses that kind of imagery to not make it that obvious that Simon was the one getting kill by accident, and so that readers will think that it really was teh beast.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened in this passage was that the boys where chanting to kill the beast and got into it much.Because of that when Simon apperred to tell everyone that he had seen a dead man, they acted on thier savage impulse and attack & killed Simon.The author uses the imagery of
ReplyDelete"tearing of teeth and claws" to show how barbarian like animals the boys attacked Simon and how it over took them.
i think that the author uses imagery to foreshadow the events that happen later on in the story. for example how they chant "kill the beast!" didnt the lord of the flies mention how the beast was inside every one of them. this means that they will kill among themselves.
ReplyDeleteI believe that the reason why the author uses imagery in this novel is to give the reader a better understanding and vision of what is occurring.The fact that the author uses those sentences in his writing shows the intencity in which things are happening and the way in which every single person on that island contains savegery in them.
ReplyDeleteThe reason that i think that the author uses imegery is to show the reader hoe the book is being explained in a better way. For example when there is a word a person as a reader dont understand, the author uses imagery to explain or describe that word better. The author may know that the Reader is struggling to understand things better, so he gives them a little hand by using imagery .
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