Chapter Titles & quotes Flashcards
What is the name of chapter one ?
The sound of the shell
What is the name of chapter two?
Fire on the mountain
Give 3 key quotes from chapter one
- “All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle”
- ”most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch”
- ”unbearable blood”
Give 3 key quotes from chapter two
- “We’ll have rules” he cried excitedly “lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks em-“
- Jack says “after all, we’re not savages. We’re English.”
- “The forest was savage with smoke and flame”
What is the name of chapter three?
Huts on the beach
Give two key quotes from chapter three
- “The madness came into his eyes again. I thought I might kill”
- “Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies”, “white flowers glimmering under the light”
What is the name of chapter four?
Painted faces and long hair
Give 4 key quotes from chapter four
- Roger “became observed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things”
- Roger’s arm was “conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”
- Jack uses paint “like in the war” to plan his new face.
- By the time the fire was built “they were on different sides of a high barrier”
What is the name of chapter five?
Beast from water
Give three quotes from chapter five
- “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express man-kind’s essential illness”
- “They were chanting something and littluns that had had enough were staggering away, howling”
- “If I blow the conch and they don’t come back, we’ll be like animals”
What is the name of chapter six?
Beast from air
Give two quotes from chapter six
- “A sign came down from the world of grown-ups”
2. When Simon thought of the beast, he had an inward sight of “a human at once heroic and sick”
What is chapter seven called?
Shadows and tall trees
Give a key quote from chapter seven
“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering” for Ralph when he joined in with the mock hunt
What is chapter eight called
Gift for the darkness
Give two key quotes from chapter eight
- In simons den ,”the air threatened” and he “shifted restlessly”
- The beast says to Simon “you knew didn’t you, I’m part of you”
What is the name of chapter nine
A view to a death
Give three key quotes from chapter nine
- “The air was ready to explode” - pathetic fallacy
- “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws”
- “The sky was scattered once more with the incredible lamp of stars”
What is chapter ten called
The shell and the glasses
What is chapter eleven called?
Castle rock
Give three quotes from chapter eleven
- “Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the trigger”
- “The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist”
- Jacks tribe are now “anonymous devils faces”
What is the name of chapter twelve?
Cry of the hunters
Give 4 key quotes from chapter twelve
- “You don’t know roger, he’s a terror”
- ”fun and games said the officer”
- “Burning wreckage of the island”
- “Ralph wept for the end of innocence” and “darkness of man’s heart”
