4. Are there any settings in this novel which you have found to be beautiful? Or disturbing? Or memorable? Describe these settings and comment on why they were meaningful to you.
Although his novel only has one setting, it brought a lot of emotions into my mind. At first when you imagine the slight breeze of school boys walking out of the misty fog and in the back of them is the plane that had crashed. You could imagine them like from the drama Lost. At first that kind of setting got me to think of happy pleasant thoughts of a tropical island. You could just feel the warm sand between your toes and the waves’ running back and fourth with the misty bubbles of the water touching your toes and over your sandals. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of the novel. Later on when conflicted started to erode, it wasn’t very pleasant. The hunters (Jack’s pack of choir boys whose jobs were to hunt for food) were very violent.
There was a point where Jack wasn’t used to the killing and violence of things because he was just an innocent English school boy going to school without having to think about anything like that. There was a point where he had caught a pig and if he didn’t kill it in that second it would get away. Jack just couldn’t kill the poor innocent animal. That was when the whole setting of the book started to feel dark. Something overcame inside him that was like anger. He was mad at himself because he was supposed to be the leader of the pack and it seemed like he was too chicken to kill the pig. You could see he was ashamed of himself and he just wanted to do anything to not become so weak hearted. That’s when he turned savage like with no heart. I thought this was very strongly affected to me because it really showed me how people under pressure feel. If it’s not you then you don’t care. But thinking about other people, you could feel that pressure could change how they react and how they can change just in a situation like that.
Although his novel only has one setting, it brought a lot of emotions into my mind. At first when you imagine the slight breeze of school boys walking out of the misty fog and in the back of them is the plane that had crashed. You could imagine them like from the drama Lost. At first that kind of setting got me to think of happy pleasant thoughts of a tropical island. You could just feel the warm sand between your toes and the waves’ running back and fourth with the misty bubbles of the water touching your toes and over your sandals. Unfortunately, this was just the beginning of the novel. Later on when conflicted started to erode, it wasn’t very pleasant. The hunters (Jack’s pack of choir boys whose jobs were to hunt for food) were very violent.
There was a point where Jack wasn’t used to the killing and violence of things because he was just an innocent English school boy going to school without having to think about anything like that. There was a point where he had caught a pig and if he didn’t kill it in that second it would get away. Jack just couldn’t kill the poor innocent animal. That was when the whole setting of the book started to feel dark. Something overcame inside him that was like anger. He was mad at himself because he was supposed to be the leader of the pack and it seemed like he was too chicken to kill the pig. You could see he was ashamed of himself and he just wanted to do anything to not become so weak hearted. That’s when he turned savage like with no heart. I thought this was very strongly affected to me because it really showed me how people under pressure feel. If it’s not you then you don’t care. But thinking about other people, you could feel that pressure could change how they react and how they can change just in a situation like that.
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