Spatial

F.Scott Fitzgerald__**
 * __The Great Gatsby [[image:gatsby.jpg width="272" height="378" align="right"]]


 * ""I feel far away from her," he said. "It's hard to make her understand.""**

Gatsby throws many extravegant parties to call the attention of an old flame. His neighbor Nick brings Daisy to one of these parties, but Gatsby doesn't see Daisy make any intention of recovering their love from the past. Daisy is a married woman, so there is a distant between the idea of a relationship with Gatsby and Daisy because she is a married to Tom. The author's purpose is to show the struggles people face to achieve their goals by trying to reproduce the past.

__**Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut**__


 * "Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy’s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.” Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."**

The framed prayer is the same as the one on on the locket of the mate he has been given at the Tralfamadorian zoo. The prayer is a demonstration between the two conflicting ides Billy has to live with. One idea being the Tralfamadorian life in which there is a fourth dimesion of time and the one where everyone believes time is a single linear progression. The author's purpose is to enhance the theme of the illusion of free will.

William Golding__**
 * __Lord of the Flies[[image:lordoftheflies.jpg align="right"]]


 * "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law."**

Roger begans his cruelty towards the younger children, but at the same time he remebers the standrads of society in which he lives in and relizes that his behavior would be morally incorrect. Roger demonstrates the conflict between the two ideas that distance themselves through out the book, savage instinct and the instinct for civilization. The author's purpose is to therefore emphasize the central theme of the book, which is civilization vs savagery.