William Golding Lord Of The Flies Chapter Structure Analysis

Literature can cause a reader to burst into laughter, tears, and fits of rage uncontrollably. This is possible because structure. Authors use structure to make the reader go through an emotional rollercoaster with the characters, and therefore it helps a reader relate more closely with them. William Golding expertly applies this to his book The Lord of the Flies. The book’s focuses is a group of boys on an uninhabited island who have to figure out how to survive without society. Golding’s writing displays the group’s descent into savagery and madness through their thoughts and actions, which turn from rational thinking and practical actions to fear of a nonexistent “beastie” and inhuman practices. In chapter 8 specifically, this savagery is

Dialogue, and even a lack thereof, can help the reader relate to characters as they face challenges and grow. Because of this, authors often use it liberally to explain plot developments. When Simon’s struggle starts to unfold in chapter 8, no dialogue occurs. Instead, Golding elaborated on the heat and thirst Simon is experiencing. Because the text is not broken up by conversation, it contains a long paragraph that feels solid and sturdy. This subconsciously makes the reader understand that Simon is in a sound state of mind, by relating the solidity of the text to that of his own thoughts. However, when Simon is brought up again later in the chapter, dialogue is present. Simon speaks to the Lord of the Flies, a severed sow’s head

By incorporating both dialogue and order of events into the chapter, Golding related Simon’s experiences to the reader flawlessly. However, Golding did not only use structure throughout Simon’s struggle. Through the structure of the plot development of Lord of the Flies and chapter 8 specifically, Golding draws parallels between Simon’s and all of the boys’ struggles and creates an emphasis on the group’s downward spiral into