One of the decisions William Golding had to make the first page of the Lord of the Flies is to have Piggy clean his spectacles right away. By doing this he draws attention to this major symbol that last throughout the book. Also when Piggy starts to clean his glasses you can tell that Piggy is a very orderly person, and that cleaning his glasses is kind of a nervous habit for him.
William Golding adds raindrops failing from the tree leaves adding a nice touch to the setting, so the reader can picture what the boys see. Also if you associate the raindrops with emotions the raindrops foreshadow sadness that stays through a lot of the novel. The night that Simon is killed it is raining so it also foreshadows to danger too. So by adding in the one little detail of the raindrops William Golding really added in many details.
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