... is his father whom he conjures up as a 'presence' when he is first taken hostage and it is the role of pseudo-father that he undertakes when MacCarthy arrives. The irony, of course, is that the cocooning or cradling to which Keenan is forced to submit, is 'evil'. Despite this, Keenan expresses the belief that he was fated to become a hostage ... ...

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... Jesus on the hill of Calvary, whilst the sulphurous explosion' has suggestions of the explosion of Heaven to expose a hell, which discharges devils as faceless littluns. William Golding uses implied irony in the way that the saintly Simon brings news to free his companion's bestial fear, but is mistaken for the beast by the beast itself. The tribe loose their identity ... ...

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