Civilisation and Order Flashcards
Chapter 1
Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them.
Chapter 2
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.”
Chapter 5
“All this I meant to say. Now I’ve said it. You voted me for chief. Now you do what I say.”
They quieted, slowly, and at last were seated again. Ralph dropped down and spoke in his ordinary voice.
Chapter 6
“I’m chief. We’ve got to make certain [that there is no beast]. Can’t you see the mountain? There’s no signal showing. There may be a ship out there. Are you all off your rockers?”
Chapter 8
Piggy was […] so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society […] that he helped to fetch wood.
Chapter 9
[The boys] found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.
Chapter 11
Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization, “Oh, I say!—honestly!
“Which is better—to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is?”
A great clamor rose among the savages.
Chapter 12
On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun.
(Civilisation finds them)
