Key things to know

Question 1

Foreshadowing

Answer 1

Golding hints at what is to come - the loss of innocence,
Piggy’s death, the destruction of the island and the boys’ rescue.

“”Piggy was an outsider, not only be accent, but by fat, and ass-mor, and specs”

Question 2

Imagery

Answer 2

Golding often used powerful similes and metaphors to highlight key images to the reader. Golding uses natural imagery to show the loss of innocence over the course of the novel.

“Here was a coral island Protected from the sun…he dreamed pleasantly”
“The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”.
ceased - come to an end

Question 3

Irony

Answer 3

At the end of the novel, the naval officer says, ”Jolly good show. Like the Coral Island”– he has not understood the truth at all.

Piggy has physically weak eyesight but strong insight. The boys are being evacuated from a war zone – a broken society – and then the society they then form breaks down and they become ‘at war’ with each other.

Question 4

The importance of names

Answer 4

We never know Piggy’s real name and Ralph is introduced as the “fair boy”.

Piggy’s name links him with the other ‘prey’ on the island – pigs.

The boy with the mulberry mark dies too soon to be named. As they descend into savagery Percival his name and address.