Lord of the Flies differences

In Lord of the Flies there are some differences between the “Castle Rock” at the end of chapter six the Beast from the Air with the beach as it has been described throughout the book so far. The differences are the beach is used for the littluns to play and build sand castles. While the Castle Rock has just been discovered and Jack said, “What a place for a fort! ” meaning that he is thinking about something and will use it as a protection or safe place. Lastly the beach has more resources to offer than the Castle Rock. The Castle Rock is more like a hiding place for them and while the beach is a place for them to stay and occupy.

To commence, the Castle Rock and the beach are a place on the island, but the Castle Rock is a place up on the mountain top as Ralph, “led the way over the rocks inspected a sort of half-cave that held nothing more terrible than a clutch of rotten eggs…” While the beach is where the water pool is and the shelters. The shelters are beside the beach where the boys sleep built by Simon and Ralph and with others that helped out. As William Golding describes the Castle Rock as a place that has “rotten eggs” meaning things that are not useful and the beach has boys that some stay there not being useful by not helping out the others boys.

Furthermore, the beach is where the littluns play and build their sand castles whereas the Rock Castle is just observed and walked by Ralph, Jack and the hunters and this place they are not familiar with. The littluns construct castles and use their imagination, “round the castle was a complex of marks, tracks, walls, railway lines…” Golding tells the reader that the littluns miss their home so they build these castles to keep their hopes up that there will be a day they will be back home.

The Rock Castle is a place that Jack said would be for a fort but Ralph does not like the idea while Jack is so excited and building up ideas as he is at the Rock Castle. The beach is where the boys are comfortable and feel safe but in the Castle Rock they still do not have that comfort level because, “some of the boys wanted to go back to the beach. Some wanted to roll more rocks. ”On the other hand the beach there is fruit that the littluns can reach and eat; they have water, the pool that is supposed to be used as a lavatory, and space where they can play around.

But in the Castle Rock like Ralph said “there’s no food here, and no shelter, not much fresh water,” there are more advantages in the beach than in the Castle Rock because there are more resources for them to use in the beach than on the mountain top. As Golding describes the scene of the Castle Rock is like a very small place and not enough room for things or people to hide, “because you can see. Nothing goes in or out. ” And “there was nowhere to hide, even if one did not have to go on. ” Castle Rock is different than the beach because this is where they believe that the “beast” has landed.

Simon felt a flicker of incredulity, “a beast that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. ” This is what Simon believes a beast would be at, but never thinks it could be at the beach. But is this beast they are talking illusions of human beings acting like the “beast” or is it really a creature? Because the “beast could represent themselves but now some of them are getting scared of each other that they think this is the “beast”.

Maybe Jack later on will want the Castle Rock and go live over there because “Jack was excited! when they had reached Castle Rock therefore given an inference that Jack will want to occupy this place and abandon the beach where mostly the majority has stayed. Last of all, in the island where the boys had been stranded the beach is only there real shelter, water, and fruit for the littluns, the pool for lavatory, for littluns to play, build sand castle, and for the biguns to relax and let the sun tan there skin. Whereas in the Castle Rock it is a place half-cave with “rotten eggs” as I refer to things that are not useful around just like some of the boys at the beach that are not useful and do not cooperate with the others.

The Castle Rock is limited to few things that the beach offers, it has less space, not too much water, and it is more of an area to be a fort. Jack is so excited about this place that he wants to stay there to build a fort, but Ralph does not like the idea because he is a person that thinks long term meaning will or is there enough food, water, and shelter, where Jack is a person that just goes for his needs and thinks only for himself.