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The characters whose point of view we see most frequently are Ralph, Jack, Simon, and Piggy. The narrator devotes the most time to Ralph, describing not just his thoughts but his thought process—“Then, at the moment of greatest passion and conviction, that curtain flapped in his head and he forgot—what he had been driving at.”.
- Chapter 1: The Sound of The Shell
- Chapter 2: Fire on The Mountain
- Chapter 3: Huts on The Beach
- Chapter 5: Beast from Water
- Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees
- Chapter 12: Cry of The Hunter
In this quote, the narrator uses two metaphors, one likening the strip of jungle damaged by the plane crash to a scar, and another comparing the heat and humidity to a bath. This metaphor characterizes the beach as a thin, endless stick, emphasizing both the narrowness and length of the beach. In this simile, the narrator likens the choir boys, dre...
Here the narrator compares one of the littluns to a shrimp, suggesting that he is smaller than other boys on the island. In this poetic metaphor, the narrator likens the setting sun to a “drop of burning gold” sliding down a windowpane toward the windowsill. In this simile, the narrator compares the spreading flames of a forest fire to a squirrel c...
This simile, which describes Jack hunting pigs in the jungle, likens his stealthy behavior to that of a wild animal.
In this metaphor, Ralph compares life on the island to an improvised journey that becomes tiresome because he must spend so much energy treading cautiously.
This metaphor refers to the night Ralph, Jack, and Roger go in search of “the Beast,” comparing their state of confusion to that of a drugged patient in a dentist’s chair.
As Ralph tries to escape from Jack’s tribe of savages, the narrator compares his desperate behavior to that of a snarling cat attacking one of his pursuers.
Point of view refers to the perspective that the narrator holds in relation to the events of the story. The three primary points of view are first person, in which the narrator tells a story from their own perspective ("I went to the store"); second person, in which the narrator tells a story about you, the reader or viewer ("You went to the ...
Point of view is this “voice” or sensibility that shapes a story through narrating it. The vast majority of works of fiction employ either a first-person or a third-person narrator—that is, respectively, a character from within the world of the story is recounting it or a disembodied voice from outside the narrative world is.
The anthropomorphic metaphor operates to represent an distinctive image that functions throughout the text, and is supported by the quasi-humanisation through the verb phase “to be running about” (Rus. «сновать») and a noun phrase “resting place” (Rus. «пристанище»), that can refer both to human and non-human actors.
The Butterfly Lion is a children's novel by Michael Morpurgo. It was first published in Great Britain by Collins in 1996, and won the 1996 Smarties book prize . [ 1 ] The book was adapted into a stage play by Daniel Buckroyd of the Mercury Theatre, Colchester , which toured the UK in 2014.
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Tie a knot in the end of the thread and put the needle through the butterfly’s body, so that you can hold it up and make it ‘fly’. (It’s a good idea to put the thread slightly closer to the head than the tail.) Tie one end of the thread to the hanger. Tie the other three butterflies in the same way.
