chapter 2 Flashcards
“before I could kill it..
but next time!” (Jack)
“We’ll have rules!…
he cried excitedly- “Lots of rules!” (Jack)
“all the same you need…
an army-for hunting” (Jack)
“Jack slammed his knife into a trunk…
and looked round challenginingly”
“we’ll have to have hands up…
like at school” (Ralph)
“while we’re waiting…
we can have a good time on this island”
what is significant about the boys talking about Coral Island?
Golding wrote LoTF as a response to Coral Island and how unrealistic it is
“this is our island…
it’s a good island. Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun” (Ralph)
“Let him have the conch”…
shouted Piggy “Let him have it”
“Ralph explained…
kindly”
“But if there was a snake…
we’d hunt it and kill it” (Jack)
“We want to have fun…
and we want to be rescued” (Ralph)
“We want to be rescued…
and of course we shall be rescued” (Ralph)
“Ralph flushed…
looking sideways at Piggy’s open admiration”
“We must make…
a fire” (Ralph)
“Ralph was left…
holding the conch, with no one but Piggy”
“Like kids!….
he said scornfully. Acting like a crowd of kids” (Piggy)
“He caressed….
the shell respectfully (Piggy)
“with the martyred…
expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children”
“trees, forced by the damp heat…
found too little soil for full growth, fell early and decayed”
“his specs…
use them as burning glasses” (Jack)
“most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled…
it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay, but some trunks came out in one piece”
“Piggy was surrounded….
before he could back away”
“His voice rose…
to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face”
“Give ‘em back…
I can hardly see! You’ll break the conch”
“We used his specs…
He helped that way” (Simon)
“I got the conch…
said Piggy indignantly. You let me speak!”
“Jack turned fiercely…
“You shut up!”
“We’ve got to have special people…
for looking after the fire” (Ralph)
“we ought..
to have more rules (Ralph)
“Piggy opened his mouth to speak…
caught Jack’s eye and shut it again”
“We’re not savages…
We’re English and the English are best at everything” (Jack)
“Perhaps we’ll…
never be rescued” (Roger)
“Daring, indignant…
Piggy took the conch”
“they stirred and began…
to shout him down” (Piggy)
“If I say anything, cried Piggy, with bitter realism, you say shut up…
but if Jack or Maurice or Simon. (Piggy)
“at the sight of the flames…
and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering”
“I got the conch…
said Piggy, in a hurt voice. I got a right to speak”
“they looked at him with eyes…
that lacked interest in what they saw” (Piggy)
“Piggy glanced..
nervously into Hell”
“You’re always scared…
Yah Fatty!” (Jack)
“I got the conch…
aint I Ralph?” (Piggy)
“But the first time Ralph says fire…
you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!” (Piggy)
“How can you expect…
to be rescued if you don’t put things first and act proper” (Piggy)
“Won’t we look funny…
if the whole island burns up?” (Piggy)
“The little ‘uns…
Who took any notice of ‘em? Who knows how many we got? (Piggy)
“That little ‘un…
gasped Piggy- him with the mark on his face, I don’t see him. Where is he now?” (Piggy)
