Camilla Mauritzen

English IB 1K

Ms. Lake

10.11.08

Interpretive Questions- A View to a Death

        The author creates this sense of peace and tranquility by use of descriptive words and vocabulary usually associated with beauty and serenity. ‘Incredible lamp of stars,’ ‘The air was cool, moist, and clear,’ ‘The clear water mirrored the clear sky and the angular bright constellations’ (p.189). These few paragraphs may not be the most beautiful passages had they been in another book, but comparing it to the way Golding writes otherwise at this point in the novel makes this passage seem especially soothing. As the boys have almost completely turned savage Golding has been using graphic and vulgar wording to describe the boy's current situation, however here he writes as if savagery didn’t exist.

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        Simon has been attributed a Christ-like or saint-like figure. Golding was a religious man which can be seen through his character of Simon. He is like Jesus; he sacrifices himself in an attempt to make things better. Unlike Jesus, however, Simon is killed before he can convey his message about the truth of the beast. He isn’t written about as a boy anymore, but as an angelic creature of pure goodness, he represents ‘good’, whereas Jack represents ‘bad’. Now good is dead, and savagery has completely taken over.

         The last paragraph talks about the sun, the moon, and earth as ...

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