1 The shore was fledged with palm trees.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 2 He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 3 He climbed over a broken trunk and was out of the jungle.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 4 The fair boy was peering at the reef through screwed-up eyes.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 5 When we was coming down I looked through one of them windows.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 6 All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 7 Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 8 I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 9 The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 10 Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 11 Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake--blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 12 In a few seconds the fat boy's grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 13 Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 14 The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 15 He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 16 The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way once more toward the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William GoldingContext In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell 17 The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.
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