How Does Golding Make This Passage Tense And Powerful? :: English Literature:

How Does Golding Make This flight Tense And Powerful?Golding uses many techniques to make this passage tense and fibrousby use language and the content of the passage. He uses many typesof vision and dramatic language throughout the passage as well aschanges in pace and many different sorts of sound effects.The most obvious means Golding has apply to make this passage actually powerful is the content. He implies that someone has died in thispassage, which evokes many feelings among readers because death issuch a foreboding(a) occurrenceThat little un had a mark on his -face -w here is -he now?The track Golding has portrayed the death is particularly effectivebecause it is not definite that the son has died and not discerningsomething is more tense than knowing something. Also the boy didntdie in the book, meaning all we have is the reactions from the boysand what they say, instead of knowing exactly what happened we areleft to think about it on our own, using our own imagi nation.The imagery that Golding uses in the passage is very descriptive andunsettling. He uses personification, similes and metaphorsTall swathes of creepers rose for a moment into view, agonized, andwent down again.Here Golding has used personification to depict the plants. This showshow the boys are starting to see things and get very paranoid of theirsurroundings. The plants seem to be coming to life, which is veryunnatural and disconcerting. mavin patch touched a tree trunk and scrambled up interchangeable a brightsquirrel.This is a simile, describing the rouse to be like a squirrel, whichseems really strange but also very cunning and powerful. Golding hasportrayed to very different things an innocent squirrel and a lethal resurrect. This makes the fire appear quite harmless thereforehighlighting its danger even out more when we find out it has killedsomeone.The drum-roll of the fire---------------------------The metaphor Golding has used here is repeated several times in th epassage. Later he except says, drum-roll instead of fire. This iseffective because a drum roll is a powerful and steady sound, verydistinctive and of importance. Although it doesnt sound like a fireit is very significant like the fire is in this passage. Also the thinking of a growing drum-roll going on during this passage builds up more tension.In this passage Golding doesnt just use the boys speech to convey