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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (68732)	11/27/2002 1:07:13 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Okee Dokee I was thinking of Lord of the Flies- because I have read it 6 times in the last few weeks. Over and over and over it gets drummed into my brain. The Island is personified in that novel. Fire on the island (to take an example) is personified in that novel. It is a bright squirrel leaping from tree to tree, it takes wing on the wind and flies, it is AMAZING. The Island gets a lot more description that the boys, the description is alive. The beast is a dead thing, a body, and yet it is a force malignant, more malignant that a live man could have been, perhaps. That is the way I look at it anyway. You could, of course, come to any number of other conclusions when reading LOTF, but that one certainly struck me, since I've been concentrating on the imagery, the symbolism, and the personification.