In the chapter, “Huts on the Beach,” William Golding utilizes a metaphor to illustrate how disconnected and detached the two leaders Ralph and Jack have become, highlighting their emotional separation by comparing them to continents. After a useless discussion, Ralph and Jack “walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate” (55). The author utilizes the word continents because the farthest you can get from someone is another continent, and continents will never touch or move, but stay apart. Continents have different ecosystems and are overall distinct and separate from one another, showing how the boy’s different experiences and feelings are permanently separating them. The metaphor uses the word continents to
