The Island Character Analysis

On the island free from authority the boys lost their identity and direction. Left alone, the boys were free to do as they please and ran wild. Their actions on the island represented the

The isolation that comes with crashing on a deserted island affects all the characters, seen most dramatically through Jack. Being brought into this setting transforms the civilized choir leader into a savage hunter and murderer who’s given into his inner demons. When the boys first crash land onto the island, they were proper English schoolboys. Due to the separation from society, however, the boys start to regress, giving in to their more animalistic instincts. Jack starts off as the ‘‘chapter chorister and head boy’” who tries to take leadership of the tribe the boys form; he fails to do so, turning him away from order and reason (Golding 22). He neglects his duties and turns his attention to hunting the native pigs, prompting him to let the fire, their gateway back to society, go out; this pits Ralph against Jack, who represent civilization and savagery

There are no adults on the island. No one to make them feel safe when there is an unknown creature that feeds off fear. Jack takes that fear and causes a decline in the society of the boys on the island. First of all, he is stubborn. Jack is also immature and reckless. Thirdly, he is power-hungry. Lastly, Jack is driven by fear.

In the beginning, the island has a happy, holiday feel, like a trip to the Bahamas. The boys explore the island feeling like adventurers and trailblazers instead of lost children. When scouting the island for the first time, Ralph, Simon, and Jack talked of making maps and a“kind of glamour was spread over them and the scene and they were conscious of the glamour and made happy by it” (Golding 25). But the island does not retain its pleasant and benign atmosphere for long- soon an aura of fear steals over the jungle. Hunting goes from an adrenaline fueled excursion to source a mild anxiety for all but Jack, and when he tells his hunters to follow him, they “spread out, nervously, in the forest” (Golding 133). The jungle has changed from a place full of fruit and joyous exploration, to one full of shadows and beasts. It is easier to revert back to savagery when lost within its trees. As early as the third chapter, Jack gets startled and “for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees” (Golding 49). When one is alone or afraid, the jungle starts to feel like a hunt-or-be-hunted scenario. Jack, the character perhaps most acclimated to the jungle through his long hunting trips, describes being afraid and feeling vulnerable in the jungle, as if something is always behind him. When everything has deteriorated into chaos, perhaps the most telling

The crews emotions and feelings about the island constructs expectancy for the reader. According to Connell, ‘“The crew’s nerves seemed a bit jumpy”’ ( Connell, 40). Which indicated that something bad was going to happen. There was also more foreshadowing when Whitney stated that “‘sailors have an extra sense that tells them when they are in danger”’

After reading the first few chapters of this novel, I found that the biggest fear that the characters shared was uncertainty if they would ever see their families again, or even survive on the island. Immediately after the boys

( The Island) Lincoln questions the food they eat, the cloth they wear and the overall ways of the society. Lincoln demonstrates his natural curiosity and that he is different from his brothers and sisters. Similarly, Equality has a knack

The author's description of the island allows for me, the reader, to take a short step away from the island with a bunch of children trapped on it and enjoy what seems to be representing a perfect utopia.

that they are scared of into the beast.them being alone on the island is why the beast is being created in

This song depicts how the boys felt when they first arrived at the island. They saw that there were no adults and were excited about all the fun they were planning to have together and without parental supervision. The song paints an island in a positive light saying that it's a paradise, just like the boy’s original fantasies.

Ralph repeats "this is a good island," when he is grateful for everything the island has and does not have. He is thankful that it has their basic needs, and it has no significant animal predators to harm them. The other boys are afraid of the island, including Jack because he says, "you can feel as if you're not hunting, but-being hunted." The real issue on the island are the humans because they are the ones who kill each other and caused problems on the island. Simon is the first one to realize that there was something dark on the island when he says, "as if it wasn't a good

By the story’s end, all of the boys but Ralph had become savages, leaving a sour taste in the reader’s mouth, but also providing many lessons about true human nature. Overall, Jack’s choices betray everybody on the island by potentially jeopardizing their rescue and, more importantly, by turning them into savages as well and completing the story’s intent to show humans in their natural

Karana, the main character in Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell, was a girl from the village of Ghalas-at who ended up abandoned by her people. Her brother, Ramo, was left behind with her, but he quickly died from wild dogs ripping him apart. Karana then had to learn how to survive on her own. The quote, “No man is an island” means that nobody is alone.

“The man fell back instantly and lay with blood bubbling from the hole in his forehead. The boy was lying in his lap with no expression on his face at all” (McCarthy, pg. 66). In other words, the boy was so shocked by the situation he was in; this caused him to change his attitude towards strangers. In the same manner The Island has important character development that causes the protagonists to change their behaviours. For instance, when Jordan Two Delta and Lincoln Six Echo escaped and went to Tom Lincoln’s house. In this scene there was an altercation that resulted in the client –Tom Lincoln- dying, which was a great example of how the characters developed. After this scene the protagonist realized how careless and willing they were to hurt others in order to get the clones back to the facility. The scene allowed the protagonist -Lincoln Six Echo- to develop and take extra precautions to maintain safety. Six Echo would always be on his toes; look back every so often, and though through his plans. This leads into the theme that is related to brute force which is that people will do anything to survive.

The island is also a powerful means of conveying the traits of the characters. This is made possible by the fact that it appears to change depending on who is regarding it. The initial responses of the characters to their arrival on the island illustrates this ides. For Gonzalo it is temperate and full of possibility – he dreams of a commonwealth “t’excell the Golden Age”. For Antonio it is barren and unforgiving; he remarks it has “everything, save means to live”. The archcriminals Antonio and Sebastian mock the advisors observation that their clothes are undamaged and cleaner than before, but this is an interesting metaphor for the function of the island setting. The characters have been refreshed rather than hurt by their shipwreck; and, as in all Elizabethan romances, providence offers them a new