Lord of the flies island map quote?

Answer 1

It was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them

the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops

and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent,

tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense

green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail. There, where the island petered

out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing

like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.

The boys surveyed all this, then looked out to sea. They were high up

and the afternoon had advanced; the view was not robbed of sharpness

by mirage.

"That's a reef. A coral reef. I've seen pictures like that."

The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile

out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach. The coral

was scribbled in the sea as though a giant had bent down to reproduce

the shape of the island in a flowing chalk line but tired before he had

finished. Inside was peacock water, rocks and weeds showing as in an

aquarium; outside was the dark blue of the sea. The tide was running

so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment

they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.

(p.38)

These are the quotes descriping the island.