Entry # 5

What is the mood of this novel? What happens? Do you find this novel saddens you in any way? Why?

From my thoughts on this novel, the mood is mostly on betrayal. The novel starts with delight friendship of teenagers. Ralph, Simon, and Jack climb up the mountain, and the event forms friendship. After Jack was chosen for taking care of the fire as a signal, a boat passes, and Jack only focuses on hunting like a predator. From there, mood goes slightly, not changing through with despair. Then this beast comes out making the mood worse. Finally, Jack Merridew went away from Ralph’s group and created his own, and I suppose that this part of the story is very effective to the mood that I have chosen. This novel shows sympathy to me because of Jack’s group, which were group of teenagers who betrayed their rightness. As I said on entry # 4, trusting in one’s rightness will bring reward, but these teenagers who betrayed their rightness won’t get rewarded. From there, I feel gloomy for those teenagers with sympathy.