Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William
Golding, Ralph is speaking.
"Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We
began well; we were happy. And then-"
He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at
nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire,
the talk of fear.
"Then people started getting frightened."
A murmur, almost a moan, rose and passed away.
Jack had stopped whittling. Ralph went on, abruptly.
"But that's littluns' talk. We'll get that straight. So the
last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of
deciding on the fear."
The hair was creeping into his eyes again.
"We've got to talk about this fear and decide there's
How is the universal theme of the relationship between
civilization and nature developed in this passage?
through Ralph's long hair falling into his eyes
through Ralph's recollection of the children's fears
through Ralph's memory of walking along the beach
through Ralph's explanation of the scary things as
stories