1 The flies had found the figure too.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death 2 Astonishingly, a dark figure moved against the tide.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees 3 Ralph turned involuntarily, a black, humped figure against the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water 4 So the figure, with feet that dragged behind it, slid up the mountain.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 5 The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 6 Then the wind blew again and the figure lifted, bowed, and breathed foully at him.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death 7 Then he took the lines in his hands; he freed them from the rocks and the figure from the wind's indignity.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death 8 So as the stars moved across the sky, the figure sat on the mountain-top and bowed and sank and bowed again.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 9 There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 10 Then, each time the wind dropped, the lines would slacken and the figure bow forward again, sinking its head between its knees.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 11 Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death 12 This palm trunk lay parallel to the beach, so that when Ralph sat he faced the island but to the boys was a darkish figure against the shimmer of the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water 13 The figure fell and crumpled among the blue flowers of the mountain-side, but now there was a gentle breeze at this height too and the parachute flopped and banged and pulled.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 14 Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 15 When the breeze blew, the lines would strain taut and some accident of this pull lifted the head and chest upright so that the figure seemed to peer across the brow of the mountain.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 16 Yard by yard, puff by puff, the breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers, over the boulders and red stones, till it lay huddled among the shattered rocks of the mountain-top.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air 17 On the mountain-top the parachute filled and moved; the figure slid, rose to its feet, spun, swayed down through a vastness of wet air and trod with ungainly feet the tops of the high trees; falling, still falling, it sank toward the beach and the boys rushed screaming into the darkness.
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