Lord of the Flies: Golding spends a lot of time describing the island. Knowing that authors are intentional with their writing, explain how the figurative language used to describe the setting contributes to the mood of the story.

Read the excerpt from part 2 of “to build a fire.” to build the fire he had been forced to remove his mittens, and the fingers had quickly gone numb. his pace of four miles an hour had kept his heart pumping blood to the surface of his body and to all the extremities. but the instant he stopped, the action of the pump eased down. which words from the excerpt provide context clues for the underlined word?

Kissing the blarney stone is supposed to give you what

Think about how each character defines success. what does the story suggest about success