Foreshadowing and Flashback in the LOTF

Foreshadowing:

Foreshadowing of Death:

• Jack hesitates to kill the pig and it gets away.

“Next time, there will be no mercy”(31).

→Next time there will be death.

• LOTF’s conversation with Simon.

“I’m warning you…So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else−”(144).

→ Simon’s death

• Storm before Simon’s death

“The hunters were looking uneasily at the sky, flinching from the stroke of the drops”(151).

→ catastrophe of murder/chaos.

• Nearly killing Robert (114-115)

“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” (115).

→Simon’s death

• “Colors drained from waters an trees and pink surfaces of rock; and the white and brown clouds brooded”(145).

→ Death

• Simon’s death

→Other deaths

Foreshadowing of Rescue:

• Parachutist landing on the island (95).

→ If someone could land on their island, they could be rescued.

• Simon’s converstaiton with Ralph

“ I just think you’ll get back all right” (111).

→Simon will die; Ralph will get rescued.

Foreshadowing of Trouble and Disorder:

• Fear of Beastie

“ ‘As if this wasn’t a good island,’ said Ralph slowly” (52).

→Trouble on the island

• First fight between Ralph and Jack; Shelters Vs. Hunting (53)

→Disorder on the island

• When Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric don’t light the fire before they go to bed (164).

→ The fire represents order and civilization, so with the fire out, there would obviously be disorder.

Foreshadowing the evil emerging in Jack and Roger:

• Roger throwing a rock at a littlun.

 → Roger will be evil; kills Piggy with rock.

• Jack recommending using a littlun for the reenactment of hunt (115).

→Jack will be rutheless

Flashbacks

• It rained when they came.

“I don’t like them clouds.  Remember how it rained just after we landed” (147).

• When Ralph blew the conch at Castle Rock in chapter 11, it reminded him of the first time.
• “The forests re-echoed; and birds lifted, crying out of the treetops, as on that first morning ages ago” (170).
• “Ralph remembered the ungainly figure on a parachute.  ‘He said something about a dead man.’  He flushed painfully at this admission that he had been present at the dance” (162).
• “It was different when the fire was−” “− up there.” (164).
• Nostalgia and flashback of Dartmoor (164).
• “ Do you remember how he went hunting and the fire went out and a ship passed by?” (170).

Samar Al Ansari

Grade 11.5
2004