Lord Of The Flies-A Change Of Setting
A Change Of A Setting
A story in most cases can be dramatically affected, simply by just changing the setting. The book “Lord Of The Flies” takes place on a hot tropical deserted island, which includes features like mountains, forests, a lagoon and sand beaches. The story is about a group of boys who crashed with a plane into the island and are now isolated on it without any help. If the setting however was changed to the Arctic instead of a tropical island, the story would totally change by having a new feel to it, new set of conflicts caused by the setting and a change in the theme or what it exactly symbolizes.
Every written story has a different feel. One is scary, another is funny and a third is serious. This particular one has a more of adventures one with a lot of energy into it. This is because it is taking place on an isolated island where there are no other humans living at the moment, and there is a lot to be discovered. The main characters have never seen it before, it also has mountains beaches, and mainly forests not yet explored. Nothing surrounds it but miles and miles of water. The weather is also sunny and extremely hot. If the same story however took place in the Arctic, the feel would change right away from adventures and energetic to a more dead and boring one. This would happen because in the Arctic the weather is extremely cold, therefore everything is frozen, the winters are endless and so are the nights. There is barely any motion around and not much is present. Where as on the island you have pigs in the forest, trees, which move from the wind, and waves that crash on the shore. There is more life and motion on the island, where as on the Arctic it seems as if nothing will happen in the next years to come.
At different places there are different sets of conflicts. On the island where the story takes place, the only huge problem caused by it is that there is no way to leave it except to get rescued. If the story took place in the Arctic however, there would appear new and different set of conflicts then the once on the island. For example shelters. Because the weather is so much...