Point of View in Lord of the Flies. Shifting point of view can affect the text in many ways, including making the story more clear, or making it harder to understand.

Authors Avatar

                                                                                                

                                Lord of the Flies- Point of View

                I was staring at a pitiful contraption of palm trunks and leaves, an effort to make a shelter. It seemed to be on the verge of collapsing straight into the ocean. Simon and I were observing the shelter. I was thinking so hard about this issue that I did not notice that someone was speaking to me. I looked up with a frown and saw Jack, the leader of the “hunters”, looking very well spent, and exhausted. “Got any water?”, Jack was asking. “I said have you got any water? I’m thirsty”, he asked again. I was slightly startled at his appearance, and replied, “Oh hullo. Water? There by the tree. Ought to be some left”. Jack picked up a coconut shell that contained water, and began drinking. He breathed noisily after finishing, and said, “I needed that”. Simon then spoke to me from inside the shelter. “Up a bit”. I turned my attention back to the shelter and lifted a branch with a whole tiling of leaves. This accidentally caused the leaves to come apart and fall to the ground. Simon looked down from the hole in the shelter. “Sorry”. As I surveyed the wreck, I said, “Never get it done”. Out of pure exasperation, I threw myself down at Jack's feet, and said, “Been working for two days now. And look!”. I pointed at two shelters which were in position, but very shaky and in danger of collapsing. The one I had been dealing with was a ruin.

Join now!

? End Rewrite –>

                Shifting point of view can affect the text in many ways, including making the story more clear, or making it harder to understand. Choosing a point of view will affect the way your reader relates to your story and the characters in it. For example, first person point of view gives the text a sense of immediacy, more so than that of third person. This is because it feels as thought it is happening as we read it. This can create tension in the plot, and a better sense of intimacy with the main character ...

This is a preview of the whole essay