Lord of the Flies: Chapters 1-6

In Lord of the Flies William Golding uses diction and syntactic structures to explain a society of young children working together to survive while also establishing a chaotic tone. Golding starts the book off with the boys being ejected out of a plane onto an island without parental supervision, where they then try to figure out how to be rescued by their loved ones. Piggy, a boy on the beach, had found a conch and the colony of young boys made Ralph the chief. Golding then addresses the children coming together to create forts, gather wood and brush, and food, however they fight the whole time and not a lot gets done. After a while of being on the island the boys believe there is a beast living with them …show more content…
As the boys are trying to figure out what to do they repeat the words “let's make a fire” over and over again to get the boys on point and start doing what they need to do (30). Jack, not being the leader, took charge and had them follow him in the woods to find supplies from where Ralph and Piggy stayed behind to watch others take action. While Piggy was watching these kids gather what is expected of them he often thought to himself that the kids were all like a crowd of kids because they are all scrambling to get supplies for each other to live. So they came to the conclusion that they only have so much light left in the day and by repeating let’s make a fire shows the reader how important the fire is to them and their survival. Golding made the fire seem like an object of hope and if they are able to conduct the fire then they will be seen from far away and be saved. So, Golding creates a chaotic tone by using repetition in this case to show how important it is to their survival that this fire is conducted effectively and soon. Golding then goes on about their food situation and how they see a “pig” and this “pig” has meat, and they all want meat (45). The others have said they wanted meat for a while now and Ralph loses control and makes it aware that smoke is more important at this very moment than a pig. However the children don’t see it that way even though Ralph stayed behind his work on the huts was never acknowledged. Golding’s manipulation of the children's hunger for meat to creates a sense of chaos which develops the chaotic tone even further. Generally the children are always looking for food, one in particular named Simon tries to hunt for pigs so he can feed the others. Golding’s repetition pigs provides the reader of an idea of how hungry and crazy these kids are for