Mood

Mood is the atmosphere or general feelings in a literary work. The mood of lord of the flies changes throughout the book. There is a lot of emotion to this story, and that's what makes the mood change. In the beginning of lord of the flies, the mood is a sense of confusion. There were two boys on an island, all by themselves. As it goes on the book starts to lighten up as they find more children. As the book goes on the mood starts to change. The children start to build and create there own civilization. But like any civilization it has disagreements and they all split up into there own groups. When Piggy died the whole mood of the book changed, They started to feel guilty instead of only worrying about saving themselves. No one in the book was really sure if Piggy was stabbed purposley or not. Some children are also killed by falling rock, fires, etc. In the end the survivors get the attention of a passing plain and were saved. Over all, the book leaves you with a bitter sweet ending.