... upon the reader. Biblical references can be extracted on several different occasions. Simon (the small, reclusive, dark haired boy with epilepsy) can be seen as a Christ like representation. Simon sees beneath the surface of the issues faced by the boys and is eventually killed trying to bring them good news. On the other hand, the "beast" (an imaginary creature of which ... to explain how these techniques help the story "teach". For instance when Noland is forced to become resourceful so he can survive, the camera follows his movements as he collects water and figures out how to open c...

• Word Count: 3333
• Approx Pages: 13

... "the means for making her irrevocably and indissolubly his own", for, in his opinion, a woman should be obedient. Therefore, Sasha's betrayal to him makes him a misogynist: Standing knee-deep in water, he hurled at the faithless woman all the insults that have even been the lot of her sex. Faithless, mutable, fickle, he called her; devil, adulteress, deceiver; and the swirling ... of itself. "( P96) "By forgetting her own sex she went on writing, as if one had gone to the top of the world and seen it laid out, very majestically, beneath." (P97) Here Virginia Woolf "look beyond the perso...

• Word Count: 3885
• Approx Pages: 16