The boys' crash-landing left a "long scar smashed into the
jungle" (7). Golding uses the imagery of the scar, a flesh wound, as a symbol for the
destructive nature of humanity. Ralph and Piggy immediately notice the damage to the
island where the wreckage of the plane left broken trees. Ralph "touched a jagged end
of a trunk" and wondered aloud to Piggy what happened to the fuselage of the plane.
Piggy's reply conjures more imagery of the plane's destructive path carved onto the
island:
"That
storm dragged it out to sea. It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks
falling..." (8).
Golding's
imagery of the scar warns of man's innate capability to destroy; the scar is a visual
symbol that foreshadows deeper themes within the novel.
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