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Who is "the voice" referring to? What does the voice represent? - ANSWER Piggy is "the voice," and comes to represent the voice of reason. How does the reaction of the fair-haired boy differ from the fat boy's at the realization that there are no adults around? - ANSWER The fat boy is startled by the thought that no adults are around and suggests perhaps the pilot is alive. He wants to make a list of the other survivors and have a meeting. In short, he wants to get things organized. The fair-haired boy seems delighted and even excited at the prospect that no adults are around. He seems not to be concerned with anything but play. The language in the description of Ralph may foreshadow what? - ANSWER Golding's choice of vocabulary: black shoes, kicked...fiercely, ripped off, skull-like coconuts, sliding over the skin, and snake-like clasp sets an evil tone. It seems to foreshadow a shady character. How old is Ralph? - ANSWER Ralph is twelve years and a few months old. What is the purpose of the polysyndeton in the paragraph that begins, "Here the beach was interrupted..."? How does it compare to an asyndeton? Cite an example. - ANSWER The polysyndeton, although structurally the opposite of the asyndeton, accomplishes the same rhetorical effect: that of a feeling of multiplicity or energetic enumeration. One example of a polysyndeton is, "...a great platform of pink granitite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty..." What does Piggy mean by "half" when he says, "It wasn't half dangerous..." and "You can't half swim." ? - ANSWER When Piggy speaks using "not" and "half," it has the effect of a double negative. For example "It wasn't half dangerous" highlights the fact that it really was dangerous. Describe Piggy. - ANSWER Piggy is fat, wears glasses, and has asthma. He seems a bit brighter and a little more mature than Ralph, but is something of a wimp. What rhetorical device does Golding use in his description of light and breezes? - ANSWER Golding uses personification. The breezes "crept," and the palm fronds moved by the breeze seemed "to whisper" while the light "slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade."