Explain how Golding describes the setting of the novel in chapters 1 :: English Literature

Explain how Golding describes the setting of the novel in chapters 1and 2 of The Lord of The FliesGolding has a style of contrasting the good things and the bad thingsabout the island in The Lord of The Flies. The antecedent also describesthe setting by using imagery extensively.The author develops a positive ambience of an uninhabited island bygiving the island features that the ref knows are more positivethan negative. An example of this is when the author describes acirque on page 25. The author describes the boys position using Theywere on the lip of a cirque. The use of personification sop ups thereader severalise that the island is more like a person and non an evilthing. If Golding had used a sentence such as They were on the knifeedge of a cirque, then the reader would have identified the islandwith images of danger and negativity. The author later similarises thecirque with a waterfall. He uses the words Filled, Overflow andSpilled to make connections with a waterfall. A waterfall is usuallya thing of beauty, which can be found in national parks, and people donot divulge a waterfall as being a bad thing. The words also come inchronological order. For example something cannot be spilled before itis filled. This gives the reader a sense of natural series of events,the feeling as if everything is occurring the correct order andtherefore the island is normal and passive. However, if the author hadmixed the words in the wrong order then the reader might have felta bit confused and wondered about the safety of the island.In contrast, the author describes the island as the childrens worstenemy. On page 4 the author uses negative words to describe thesetting. Golding uses the words Coarse, Torn, Upheavals,Fallen, Scattered and Decaying to describe the border and itscontents. Under analysis the words, Torn, Upheavals and Fallen,mean that something is not in the correct position, that the islanddoes not seem to be right, that the island has an air of an imosity.The words are not pleasant words and hint to the reader that neitheris the story. The author describes how the coconuts are slowly dyingby using the word decaying. This poses the question If things thatlive on the island cannot survive how can a group of young school boysfrom a different region? It suggests that the children are going todie, just like everything else on the island. in the end everything onthe island dies, the island dies from the uncontrollable fire, the