s in the description of Simon as a Christ like figure and the island as the Garden of Eden, where the snake is evil and human being's innocence is strained by sin.
             Golding describes the island as a jungle at one end with a rocky mountain above it. At the opposite side of the island is a lagoon where a group of schoolboys first meets each other after the airplane crash. On the mountain, Golding describes a platform where the boys set their rescue fire, which they desperately try to keep burning through the night. The pinnacle location seems to be ideal for the story, having the ocean view, therefore allowing any passing planes or boats to spot them and rescue them. Golding also describes a dense jungle where plants served as a means of escape for Ralph as he fled in fear from Jack and shelter for Simon during his outbreak of insanity. Unlike Lord of the Flies, John Stinebeck uses a different setting in the novel Of Mice and Men integrating three backdrop settings in the plot. Like stage directions in a play, in the beginning of each chapter, compared to the rest of the novel, which is composed primarily of dialogue, Stinebeck impleme!
             nts poetic words when describing the settings. Set near the town of Soledad (In Spanish, means loneliness – an indication of one of the major themes of the novel), the novel's three settings are the Banks of the Salinas River near a ranch, in the ranch bunkhouse, and a barn. Before meeting any characters, the narrator introduces readers to the California valley, along the Salinas River, and its beautiful landscape. The conditions of the bunkhouse starkly contrast the lush and beautiful description of the valley's landscape. Inside the bunkhouse, it is dark and dull. "Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunk house, inside it was dusk." (Steinbeck, p. )
             Lord of the Flies uses a chronological order in the first person, which makes it ea...