chapter 5 Flashcards
“understood how much he disliked perpetually…
flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes” (Ralph)
“Ralph sat he faced the island…
but to the boys was a darkish figure against the shimmer of the lagoon”
“Only, decided Ralph as he faced the chief’s seat…
I can’t think. Not like Piggy”
“But Piggy…
for all of his ludicrous body, had brains”
“We decide things…
but they don’t get done” (Ralph)
“Jack started to chip…
a piece of wood with his knife”
“But I tell you the smoke…
is more important than the pig, however often you kill one” (Ralph)
“you’re a lot of cry-babies…
and sissies (Jack)
“Unless we get frightened…
of people” (Piggy)
“I wanted- to go to a place…
a place I know (Simon)
“Ralph remembered another small boy…
who had stood like this and flinched at the memory”
“no one had seen the…
mulberry-coloured birthmark again”
“That’s a clever beast…
if it can hide on this island” (Piggy)
“to Ralph, seated…
this seemed the breaking up of sanity”
“fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important….
and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter”
“Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak…
but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him”
“what I mean is…
maybe it’s only us.” (Simon)
“Nuts!” that was from…
Piggy, shocked out of decorum”
“Simon became inarticulate in his effort…
to express mankind’s essential illness”
“Simon’s effort fell about him in ruins…
the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat”
“Who cares what you believe…
Fatty!” (Jack)- capital letter for Fatty
“the world, that understandable…
and lawful world, was slipping away”
“What are we? Humans…
Or animals? Or savages? (Piggy)
“You shut up…
you fat slug” (Jack)
