1 Ralph had stopped smiling and was pointing into the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 2 Near to Ralph's elbow a palm sapling leaned out over the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 3 All the shadows on Ralph's face were reversed; green above, bright below from the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 4 There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 5 There, too, jutting into the lagoon, was the platform, with insect-like figures moving near it.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 6 Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 7 The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 8 Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 9 The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 10 The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain 11 Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 12 In a few seconds the fat boy's grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 13 With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 14 Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach 15 The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 16 Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 17 Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had 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.
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