Premise: It discusses how culture created by man fails, using as an example a group of British schoolboys stuck on a deserted island who try to govern themselves, but with disastrous results.

Climax :When Simon encounters the Lord of the Flies (a pig's head on a pike that is infested with flies and maggots) and realizes that the island beast is not a physical entity but something that exists in each boy. When he rushes to tell the others, he is brutally killed.

Resolution: All the boys on the island abandon Ralph and Piggy and go further into savagery and chaos. After the death of Piggy, Ralph flees and eventually ends up at the beach where he meets the naval officer.

Tense: Past

Tone:Dark Tragic

Themes:Civilization versus savagery Loss of innocence Innate human evil

Motifs:Natural Beauty Biblical parallels Outward trappings of savagery (face paint, spears, totems, chants)

Symbols: Conch shell Piggy's glasses Signal fire The beast The Lord of the Flies

Premise: The short novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The number "451" refers to the temperature at which book paper combusts.

Tense: Past Present

Tone: Foreboding Ominous

Themes: Censorship Knowledge versus ignorance

Motifs: Paradoxes Animals and Nature Religion Television and Radio Symbols Fire Blood The Electric-Eyed Snake The Hearth The salamander The phoenix The sieve and the sand Denham’s Dentifrice The dandelion Mirrors