chapters Flashcards
What is the name of Chapter 1?
Sound of the Shell
What are the key moments in Chapter 1?
- the meeting
- the election
- finding the conch
- jack fails to stick a pig
What’s the name of chapter 2?
Fire on the mountain
what are the key events in chapter 2?
- rules are decided and the conch becomes a symbol of civility
- they decide to have a signal fire on top of the mountain
- Ralph is characterised as a strong character
- the boy with a birthmark dies as the fire gets out of control
What is the name of Chapter 3?
huts on the beach
What are the key moments in chapter 3?
- Jack and Ralph have a fight over the importance of the shelters vs hunting
- they start building shelters on the beach
- most of the boys don’t help
In Chapter 3 what is an important quote of Simon working with Ralph?
‘All day I’ve been working with Simon’
What is the name of chapter 4?
Painted faces and long hair
What are the key events in Chapter 4?
- Roger is violent to the littluns
- the hunters paint their faces to hide their civility
- the fire goes out - so a passing ship doesn’t see them
- Jack kills a pig
- Jack punches Piggy in the face, breaking a lense
Chapter 4 - ‘Kill the….’
‘Pig, cut her throat, spill her blood’
What is the name of chapter 5?
Beast from Water
What are key events in Chapter 5?
- the civility of the group goes downhill
- Ralph loses confidence, he is starting to lose authority
- people have different views on the beast
- rules are less important
What is the name of Chapter 6?
Beast from Air
What are the key events in chapter 6?
- the dead parachutist lands on top of the mountain
- Sam’nEric think they have seen the beast
- Jack and Ralph disagree on how to deal with the beast
What is the name of Chapter 7?
Shadows and tall trees
What are the key events in Chapter 7?
- Ralph starts hunting and even hits a pig
- the boys pretend Roger is a pig and play a ‘game’
- they climb the mountain at night (Ralph doesn’t want to but Jack challenges him)
What is the name of chapter 8?
Gift for the Darkness
What are the key events chapter 8?
- jack calls for another election, he loses but most people secretly join him
- Jacks group brutally kills a pig, and smear the blood across their faces
- they stick the head on a stick to warn off the beast
- Simon has an interaction with the ‘Lord of the flies’
What so the name of chapter 9?
A view to a death
What are the key events in chapter 9?
- simon finds the dead airman and understands there is no beast, so warns the others
- the other boys (including Piggy and Ralph) are at Jacks feast
- Simon is murdered - the tribe is dancing to warn off rain and as he crawls back they are scared by him so they kill him
What is the name of chapter 10?
The shell and the glasses
What are the key events in chapter 10?
- Ralph is the only person accepting that Simon was murdered
- Ralph completely loses all power to Jack
- only him Piggy and Sam’nEric are left
- jacks tribe sneaks up on jack and piggy in the middle of the night and beat them up
- they steal piggy’s glasses so they can make a fire
What is the name of Chapter 11?
Castle Rock
What are the key events in Chapter 11?
- Ralph and piggy cling onto civilisation
- they go to Castle rock to try and take his glasses back
- they tell the group how savage they have become
- roger dislodges a boulder onto piggy, because he can’t see it hits him and he falls down the cliff
- the conch is destroyed alongside him
- jack tries to kill Ralph but he escapes
What is the name of chapter 12?
Cry of the Hunters
What are the key events in chapter 12?
- the tribe try to kill Ralph
- he hides in the woods but they begin to smoke him out
- he has no other option but to go, but as he is being chased they run into a naval officer on the beach
- he saves the boys
What is the key quote at the end of the novel?
‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true,wise friend called Piggy’
