Help in "Lord of the Flies" & "The Chrysalids"!!?

Question

I need to discuss the symbols used in each book, how they are important to the books and compare and contrast the symbols as applicable. Please help!!!!

Answer 1

omg I had to read Lord of the flies 2 years in a row in H.S.

why don't you watch the movie it's actually good

or get cliff notes that's what we did.....:)

try this......:)

The Lord of the Flies contains many symbols used by the author to develop and support his theme. These symbols include the following:  

.......Plane Crash: Failure or breakdown of society in the world outside; spread of corrupting ideas.  

.......Forest Scar: This path of destruction through the forest, caused by the crashing plane, appears to represent the encroachment .......of corrupt civilization on the pristine island  

.......Island: Before the arrival of the boys, the Garden of Eden; after the arrival of the boys, the corrupted world of humankind  

.......Conch: Civilized authority, democracy  

.......Eyeglasses of Piggy and Piggy Himself: Insight, wisdom, knowledge  

.......Death of Piggy and Destruction of Conch: Failure or breakdown of society on the island  

.......Signal Fire: Hope  

.......Imagined Beast: Fear, superstition. (The boys imagine that a monster in the form of a snake, a sea monster, an ape, or other ......."beasties" that they dream about lurks nearby.)  

.......Dead Parachutist: The beast. (In fact, the parachutist is a beast, for he has taken part in a war to kill fellow human beings.)  

.......Chanting and Dancing of the Hunters: Blind emotion, loss of reason  

.......Logs on Which Ralph and Jack Sit: Seats of authority; thrones  

.......The Big Boys: The emerging generation of evil .......  

.......The Little Boys: The next generation of evil  

.......The Naval Officer: The present generation of evil  

.......The Killing of the First Pig: Original sin  

.......The Killing of the Second Pig, the Sow: Release of perverted, Oedipal urges  

.......Jack's Knife, Sticks Sharpened Into Spears: Weapons of war in the macrocosmic world; phalluses as representations of .......masculine aggression  

.......Jack and Ralph: Perhaps Cain and Abel (although Ralph does not die, as Abel did in the Bible)  

.......The Impaled Pig's Head (Lord of the Flies): The evil in every man's heart

I don't know about the other book...:)