chapter 4 Flashcards
“play was good and life so full…
that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten”
“Roger led the way straight through the castles..
kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones”
“black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead…
seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding” (Roger)
“Roger followed him…
keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the same direction”
“Roger waited too…
At first he had hidden behind a great palm”
“Roger stooped, picked up a stone…
aimed, and threw it at Henry- threw it to miss”
“Roger gathered a handful…
of stones and began to throw them”
“Here, invisible yet strong…
was the taboo of the old life” (Roger)
“Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law…
“Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”
“But Roger had whipped behind the palm…
,again, was leaning against it breathing quickly, his eyelids fluttering”
“When Roger opened his eyes…
and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin”
“For hunting. Like in the war…
He twisted in the urgency of telling- “like moths on a tree trunk” (Jack
“He peered at his reflection…
and disliked it” (Jack)
“slashed a black bar..
of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw” (Jack)
“he looked in astonishment…
no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger” (Jack)
“leapt to his feet…
laughing excitedly” (Jack)
“He began to dance and his laughter…
became a bloodthirsty snarling” (Jack)
“the mask was a thing on its own…
behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness”
“the mask…
compelled them”
“he was the only boy on the island…
whose hair never seemed to grow” (Piggy)
“Piggy saw the smile…
and misinterpreted it as friendliness”
“Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent…
but by fat, ass-mar, specs and a certain disinclination for manual labour”
“some of the boys wore…
black caps but otherwise they were almost naked” (the hunters)
“Ralph picked out Jack easily…
even at that distance, tall, red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession”
“the gutted carcass…
of a pig swung from the stake”
“kill the pig…
Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
“Jack, his face…
smeared with clays”
“the twins stood with the pig…
They seemed to share one wide, ecstatic grin”
“I cut the pig’s throat…
said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it”
“there was lashings of blood….
said Jack, laughing and shuddering”
“You and your blood…
Jack Merridew! You and your hunting!” (Piggy)
“Jack smacked…
Piggy’s head”
“Piggy’s glasses flew off…
and tinkled on the rocks. Piggy cried out in terror”
“Unwillingly Ralph felt his lips twitch…
he was angry with himself for giving way”
“Jack hacked…
the pig”
“He accepted a piece of halfraw meat…
and gnawed it like a wolf” (Ralph)
“Aren’t I having…
none?” (Piggy)
“Simon, sitting between the twins and Piggy…
wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy”
“Jack leapt to his feet, slashed off a great hunk of meat…
and flung it down at Simon’s feet”
“I painted my face- I stole up…
now you eat!” (Jack)
“I crept on…
hands and feet”
“the first blow had paralysed…
its hind quarters, so then the circle could close in and beat and beat”
“then Maurice pretended to be the pig…
and ran squealing into the centre and the hunters pretended to beat him”
“Ralph watched them…
envious and resentful”
