Key Passage 1

Golding uses alliteration near the beginning of page 31 to emphasis a crucial sentence. "They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all madness of extreme terror." The repetition heard is so prominent that skimming the sentence becomes hard to do. He chooses to accentuate this sentence specifically because it is the boys first encounter with a pig. The pigs situation is very similar to that of the boys during the course of the book, they are trapped and unable to escape and eventually go crazy from fear of the beast. Also, hunting pigs is a primary cause in Jack's downward spiral to a much more primitive and uncivilized nature than Ralph's. The difference between the boys is what makes up much of the books conflict.