Summary: It was a dark night. Whitney and Rains ford were talking about hunting on the yatch. They said that hunting was the best sport in the world.But Whitney corrected that it was best for the hunter, not for the jaguar. Ranford was not interested in how the jaguar felt.He thought that it had no understanding. But Whitney added that it understands the fear of pain and death. In Ranford’s opinion the world is made up of two classes – the hunters and the hunted – and luckily they were hunters.After a while Whitney went to bed and Rainsford was smoking a pipe sitting on the deck.Then he heard three shots and he stood on the railing to see clearly, but he fell down into the sea.The yacht passed out of sight and he swan to the right from where he had heard the pistol shots. He was very happy when he came to the shore. He fell asleep and when he woke up it was late afternoon.He supposed that there must be men because only the human beings use pistols. He examined the ground closely a...
Summary: As a boy Golding found that there were three grades of thinking, but later when his hobby was thinking that could not think at all. His headmaster first brought the subject of thinking before him. There were three statuettes in his study. One was an armless lady in bath towels worried about the slipping of the towel. Next to her, was a crouching leopard ready to jump down at the top drawer of filling cabinet labeled A-AH. Beyond the leopard was a naked muscular man. He sat looking down with his chin on his fist and his elbow on his knee. The statutes were the symbols of the whole of life to the headmaster. To him the lady was the Venus (beauty) of Milo. She was love. She just wanted to be beautiful. The leopard was Nature and was being natural. The man was Rodin’s Thinker, an image of pure thought. Golding was punished for not obeying the teachers. He was taken in the headmaster’s study and was asked to think the thinker. But Golding did not understand him because he was no...