Artificial Restraints In Lord
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"GOLDING PUTS SO MANY ARTIFICIAL RESTRAINTS ON HIS STORY IN ORDER TO EMPHASISE HIS POINT, THAT THE WHOLE THING COMES OUT TOO NEATLY AND, IN FACT, REDUCES THE POWER OF HIS MESSAGE."
I think that, while the boys experience immense bad luck due to the author, the story still proves its point. It is st ....
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.... and if he and Ralph had just been friends, there would never have been an opportunity for Jack to show this darkness which lurked beneath the surface.
Golding also uses the dead pilot conveniently against the boys - the way in which he is caught in the trees just in the right position to be caught by the wind and look like the beast and the way the wind picks up after Simon has let him down from the trees and carries him out to sea, so that the other boys cannot see that it wasn't a beast. Th ....
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