Lord of the Flies
What is the effect of this simile?
Chapter 1
....spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
Chapter 1
....spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
This simile reinforces the strange and surreal place that the island is for the boys. It underlines the foreign landscape yet untouched or ruined by man.