Part one of term paper
“The only paradise is a paradise lost.” –Marcel Proust. People, even under perfect circumstances, are inherently evil. A plane crashes on a heavenly island, leaving a group of young boys stranded. With no supervision or modern convenience, the boys’ civility slowly decays; they hunt and kill with no respect for the island or each ...

Part two of term paper
... overindulge themselves in the fruit and leave half eaten cores on the ground. This wastefulness relates to our greedy consumption of natural resources, and how those who have them don’t use them efficiently. Another example of man wounding earth is the scar that the plane left when it crashed, “All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat” (7). Golding calls it a “scar” to demonstrate that the island, or on a greater level, the earth, is a living thing. The ...