Island: Lord of the Flies

20/02/07+

Stephanie Tacit

Long scar smashed into the jungle (pg.1)

Screen lay between person and the lagoon (pg.2)

Beach interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust upward uncompromisingly through forest and terrace, and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high (pp.6-7)

  • Top was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees
  • Palms: fell and dried at about 20 feet high, making a criss-cross pattern

Seaward edge of platform (pg.7)

Banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end (pg.7)

Breakers on the reef (pg.9)

Fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon (pg.10)

Conch lay among the ferny weeds (pg.11)

Palm sapling leaned over the lagoon (pg.11)

Pink granite mountain (pg.12)

Jumped off the platform and walked along the sand past the swimming pool (pg21)

Sand (pg.22)

Strip of weed-strewn beach almost as firm as a road ()pg.22

Can’t see around the corner (slow curve) where the rocks get worse (pg.22)

Less jungly stuff and more pink rock (pg.23)

Wrenched and shattered cubes that lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other (pg.23)

  • Pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block, and surmounted again until the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers
  • Narrow tracks winding upwards where pink cliffs rose out of the ground

Pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path (pg.24)

  • Lead into more open forest (glimpse of the sea)

Lip of a cirque or half-cirque in the side of the mountain(pg.25)

  • Blue flower, rock plant, butterflies

Circular horizon of water (pg.26)

Island roughly boat-shaped: humped at this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore (pg.26)

  • Rocks, cliffs, tree-tops, and a steep slope on either side
  • Forward there, the length os the boat (a tamer and tree-clad descent with hints of pink)
  • Dense, green, jungly flat of the island but drawn out at the end to a pink tale
  • Another island of rock (almost detached) with a bold, pink bastion

Reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as the beach (pg.26)

Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees(pg.27)

  • Splintered trunks and a drag, leaving only a fringe of palms between the scar and the sea
  • Platform jutted into the lagoon

The other way (from the scar) there was no reef (pg.27)

Every coign of the mountain held up trees (pg.27)

Bathing pool to Ralph’s left (pg.27)

Rude shelter faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down (pg.50)

Opening in the forest (pg.58)

  • More sunshine fell
  • Creepers wove a mat that hung from the side of an open space

Built castles at the bar of the little river (pg.62)

Drinking from the river (pool where the waterfall is) (pg.85)

Pool at the end of the river; a tiny mere dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds (pg.65)

Landward end of the scar (pg.70)

The place of assembly was roughly a triangle (pg.82)

  • Big log for Ralph
  • Long log polished by restless seats along the top to Ralph’s right
  • Four small logs (furthest was springy) to Ralph’s left
  • Grass untrodden in the platform’s centre

Pink screes lay near the water’s edge (pg.72)

Tall grass at end of island with castle

There were only a few more yards of stony ground and then the two sides of the island came almost together so that one expected a peak of headland

  • Instead of this, a narrow ledge of rock, a few yard wide and perhaps fifteen feet long, continued the island out into the sea
  • There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island
  • This side of the castle was the pink bastion they had seen from the mountain-top
  • Rock of cliff split and top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter

There was one flat rock there (near forest), spread like a table