On the first page of William Golding's Lord of the Flies he hides the personality of Piggy in the text of the passage. He is very blunt with his physical description of him but not so much with his personality. You have to read the text quite thoroughly to realize that he is cautious and thinking. I believe that in hiding his personality from the reader Golding might be foreshadowing that other characters in the book won't look past his physical appearance. From reading the book I know that this is true. Only one of the characters realizes the value of Piggy's intelligence; but he still had to look deeply to uncover it.
Another thing the author does on the first page is use color to make the characters seem out of place. He talks about a red and yellow bird flying through the canopy. In contrast, he also talks about the dull grey of Ralph's shirt. This contrast makes Ralph seem to be in the wrong place; it's like he doesn't fit in. The fact that Ralph is in a foreign world adds to a feeling of tension which in turn creates a tense mood. That tense mood makes the reader feel as if something is wrong and could be foreshadowing to something that happens later in the novel.
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