This book's title figure "expands like a balloon" until a black mouth surro
This book's title figure "expands like a balloon" until a black mouth surrounds its conversational partner. A landform called "the scar" recurs in this book, in which a person's breathing is mocked by the phrase "sucks to your ass-mar," a set of twins is called by the single word Samneric, and a class of people called "littluns" emerges. Simon investigates "the beast" and hears messages from a decaying pig's head in this novel, in which the shattering of a conch shell and the breaking of Piggy's glasses heighten tension between Ralph and Jack's choirboys. For 10 points, name this book by William Golding about boys stranded on an island.
This book's title figure "expands like a balloon" until a black mouth surrounds its conversational partner.