Lord of the Flies Quotes: Chapter FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

This chapter opens with a description of mirage in the heat: ‘mysteries’, ‘miraculous’, ‘illusions’, ‘impossibility’, which Piggy identifies as ‘a mirage’. The sun is ‘like an angry eye’. They were ‘menaced by the coming of the dark’.Percival (a littlun) ‘crawled’...