conch Flashcards
1
Q
chapter 1
conch is presented as precious and authoritative through the theme of power
A
‘its ever so valuable’
‘ever so expensive’
‘delicate’
‘most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch’
‘let him be chief with the trumpet thing’
2
Q
chapter 5
conch is presented as less powerful through the decline of civilisation
A
‘he had not got the conch and thus spoken against the rules; but nobody minded’
‘hear him! he’s got the conch’
‘the conch was snatched’ from piggy’s hands
‘bollocks to the rules!’
3
Q
chapter 11
A
’ i got the conch! surprisingly there was silence now’
‘the booing rose and died again as piggy lifted the white, magic shell’
‘the conch exploded into a thousand fragments and ceased to exist’
