In this article we will review Rites of Passage by William Golding.
Book Plot
Rites of Passage is the first book in Golding’s “To the Ends of the Earth” trilogy, it follows the journey of an aristocratic young man, Edmund Talbot, on a British naval ship bound for Australia in the early 19th century.
Sailing to Australia in the early years of the nineteenth century, Edmund Talbot keeps a journal to amuse his godfather back in England. Full of wit and disdain, he records the mounting tensions on the ancient, stinking warship where officers, sailors, soldiers and emigrants jostle in the cramped spaces below decks. Then a single passenger, the obsequious Reverend Colley, attracts the animosity of the sailors, and in the seclusion of the fo’castle something happens to bring him into a ‘hell of degradation’, where shame is a force deadlier than the sea itself.
Rites of Passage Rating : 3,58
Also book has 288 pages
Rites of Passage Review
These are the dramatic actions of individuals on a ship traveling to Australia. By page 100, the narrator’s thoughts are finally set free like the ship. The story begins, but nothing surprising occurs, lacking any greatness. The author of “Lord of the Flies” wrote this book, which is not as successful. The society on the ship is uninteresting, with no memorable characters, not even the sick parson.
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