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taylor15
taylor15
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High School - 9th Grade

Define the mood in Lord of the Flies. Explain how Golding used the setting to reflect the mood of the situation.

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Posted by taylor15 on Thursday April 24, 2008 at 3:20 PM and tagged with golding, lord of the flies, mood, novel, setting, style.

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  1. gbeatty Teacher
    College - Freshman

    Golding used setting in his classic novel to indicate the mood in many ways. The first way is to foreshadow. If you look at the first page, he talks about a boy walking through a "long scar smashed into the jungle." That's a sign that human presence will be damaging the natural world on the island.He uses the setting symbolically, to influence both the readers and the boys. This is done first by making the setting strange to the boys; this makes this exciting, enticing, and somewhat scary. Later, the setting darkens as the mood does; the setting causes the mood, but more it reflects it, becoming wilder and more threatening as the boys become violent.

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    Posted by gbeatty on Thursday April 24, 2008 at 5:50 PM