Nature

Question 1

initially, nature is presented…

Answer 1

through the destruction caused by the plane crash

Question 2

finish the quote: ‘all around him the long….

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….scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat’

Question 3

‘all around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat’

Answer 3

• the sibilance of ‘scar smashed’ is almost onomatopoeic - the reader can hear the sounds of the violent crash, with the metaphor ‘scar’ alluding to the wounds mankind inflicts upon nature
• a sense of being overwhelmed and oppressed are evident from the beginning of the novel
• ‘jungle’ has associations with future savagery, but also a sense of being trapped in an overgrown environment
• pathetic fallacy - ‘bath of heat’ -> creates a sense of being submerged in something overwhelming

Question 4

finish the quote: ‘torn everywhere…

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…by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings’

Question 5

initially, nature is presented…

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as Edenic

Question 6

finish the quote: ‘the shimmering…

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…water’

Question 7

finish the quote: ‘blue of all shades…

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…and shadowy green and purple’

Question 8

finish the quote: ‘tiny,

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….glittering fish’

Question 9

finish the quote: ‘the incredible…

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…pool’

Question 10

initially, nature is presented…

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through simon’s place of refuge

Question 11

finish the quote: ‘flower and fruit…

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…grew together on the same tree’

Question 12

finish the quote: ‘and everywhere…

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…was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture’

Question 13

‘flower and fruit grew together on the same tree’
‘and everywhere was the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees at pasture’

Answer 13

• nature working in perfect harmony
• ‘fruit and flower’ and ‘same tree’ -> pleasant unity
• example of perfect life on the island
• ‘booming of a million bees at pasture’ -> symbolic of how the boys should work - together

Question 14

finish the quote: ‘the creepers had woven a great mat….

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…that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle’

Question 15

finish the quote: ‘the whole space…

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..was walled with dark aromatic bushes’

Question 16

finish the quote: ‘butterflies that danced…

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…round each other in the hot air’

Question 17

throughout the course of the novel, nature is presented…

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as the home of the beast

Question 18

finish the quote: ‘fighting with things…

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…those twisty things in the trees’

Question 19

finish the quote: ‘i saw something moving among…

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…the trees, something big and horrid’

Question 20

throughout the course of the novel, nature is presented…
(ch.8)

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as threatening

Question 21

finish the quote: ‘beyond the screen of leaves…

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…the sunlight pelted down’

Question 22

finish the quote: ‘the butterflies danced in the middle…

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…their unending dance’

Question 23

‘the butterflies danced in the middle their unending dance’

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• mimetic of the boys dancing and gathering round in a circle when hunting a pig and killing
• butterflies are symbolic of change -> the butterflies used to be linked to spirituality and the bucolic atmosphere and serenity -> however now linked to savagery
• like the boys
• shows the boys’ decline into savagery
• ‘unending dance’ -> foreshadows deaths - simon and piggy

Question 24

finish the quote: ‘the arrow of…

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…sun fell on him’

Question 25

finish the quote: 'now it...

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...threatened'

Question 26

finish the quote: 'he shifted restlessly...

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...but there was no avoiding the sun'

Question 27

throughout the end of the novel, nature is presented... (ch.9)

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as ominous through the weather

Question 28

finish the quote: 'over the island...

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...a build-up of clouds continued'

Question 29

finish the quote: 'a steady current of heated...

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...air rose all day from the mountain'

Question 30

finish the quote: 'revolving masses of gas piled up the static...

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...until the air was ready to explode'

Question 31

'over the island a build-up of clouds continued' 'a steady current of heated air rose all day from the mountain' 'revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode'

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- sense of impending destruction - what was once a beautiful paradise, is now adding to the savagery below - 'build-up' and 'piled up' -> mimics tension on the island - 'clouds' and 'revolving masses of gas' -> both images of the island becoming trapped and enclosed by violent, destructive forces

Question 32

finish the quote: 'then the clouds opened...

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...and let down the rain like a waterfall'

Question 33

throughout the end of the novel, nature is presented...

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through the aftermath of the death of simon

Question 34

finish the quote: 'the rain ceased...

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...and the clouds drifted away'

Question 35

finish the quote: 'the air was...

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...cool, moist, and clear; and presently even the sound of water was still'

Question 36

finish the quote: 'the clear water...

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...mirrored the clear sky'