Elements and Effects-Passage 1

The point of view that Golding uses for the first passage is in third-person. "He snatched his knife out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting" demonstrates that the third-person is indeed present in this passage. Writing this passage in this point of view is vital in order to set the scene as if the audience reading it were one of the boys. The effect of this is to make the readers more emotionally connected to the book in order to captivate them.