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LotF - Characters, Themes, Context and Quotes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - "Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over"
    - - first, when he was concealed by a tree and teases a littlun by throwing stones aimed to land close by
        
        "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them" "Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of old life"
      - second, just before he pushed the boulder to kill Piggy
        
        "Someone was throwing stones: Roger was dropping them"
    - - "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"
        
        He wants to behead him and put Ralph's head on a stick, like the pigs
        
        sadistic - relates to Hitler torturing innocent jews
    - - "Roger with a delirious sense of abandonment, leaned all of his weight on the lever"
    - - "you want a pig... like a real hunt"
    - - "Roger sharpened a stick at both ends"
  - - - he stands in Ralph's way of building a fire, and creating a civilised society on the island
    - - after hunting on the island, jack becomes savage and "ape-like"
    - - "ape-like"
    - - Jack tries to dominate the group rather than working with Ralph to benefit it
    - - "behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"
    - - Hitler youth -
  - - - "Simon found for [the littluns] the fruit they could not reach"
      - Golding was a teacher, so he knew the behaviours of young boys
      - Simon is an allegory (something that reveals a hidden meaning) of Jesus Christ
    - - relates to Jesus as he sacrificed his life to try and comfort the others about there being no beast
        
        relates to soldiers in the Cold War and WWII sacrificing themselves
      - "what I mean is... maybe it's only us"
        
        makes the boys question the existence of the beast, shows how they are still boys as they have lots of imagination - Golding was a teacher so knew about this
    - - William Golding was a teacher
      - Jesus was tempted by the devil after 40 days and 40 nights of fasting in the Judean Desert
      - "you knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close!"