William Golding juxtaposes Jack and Simon’s surroundings to show how Jack has descended into primal savagery, while Simon thinks under civility and enlightenment. As Jack searches the ground of the jungle, he checks a “vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark” (49). The lack of color represents Jack’s loss of civil behavior and how it has become empty, leaving his mind to descend into savagery. Jacks environment being “pale” and “grey” shows how he only sees the jungle as a place of hunting and killing. Jack’s mind is drained of the civility he once had as an english choir boy, leaving him to live in with primal savagery. While hunting, Jack is “Bent double...down like a splinter”, being described as “dog-like...on all fours” and “ape-like among …show more content…
After Simon reaches a secluded and quiet place in the jungle, “the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square roots”(56-57). The idea of the sounds becoming fainter can relate to how civilization has not completely vanished, but has actually been implemented into Simon’s way of life. He begins to move on to a sense of higher thinking or enlightenment. In Simon’s Jungle it illustrates that the “sound of the bright fantastic bird” and “bee-sounds”. This explains that he pays much attention to detail and observes them with his higher way of thinking. The way he recognizes the bird as “bright” and “fantastic” elaborates how Simon looks at the Jungle in a wondrous and awe-inspiring manner. In Simon’s jungle, it describes “wide white flowers glimmering under the light”(57). The word “white” is used to show open-mindedness because white shows a lot of space. This open-mindedness relates to Simon becoming an enlightened