HoD Blog: Section II

I now see a deep connection between Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies. One part of the book i can see a connection in is the part when Piggy dies. The boys kill him and one of them feels upset about it. In a sense, this happens in Heart of Darkness. When the helmsman dies, Marlow is upset, but the others on the boat want to eat him because they are cannibals. Another part that struck me as connecting was the eeriness of the boat and it's surroundings. They are in a beautiful jungle in both books, but in both books an eerie scene foreshadows a terrible thing happening. In Lord of the Flies, it's at the signal fire in the pitch dark and a huge object comes out of the sky. In Heart of Darkness it is not knowing which way to go, the heavy fog, and the dense, unclear jungle.