Jack Flashcards
Jack - Chapter 1
‘When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light.’
Jack - 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.”
Jack - Chapter 3
‘Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth …
He lowered his chin and stared at the traces as though he would force them to speak to him. Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped.’
Jack - Chapter 3
“If you’re hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if…you’re not hunting, but— being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”
Jack - Chapter 4
‘Beside the mere, his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes and appalled them. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.’
Jack - Chapter 4
“I painted my face—I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I—”
Jack - Chapter 6
“I’m scared of him, and that’s why I know him. If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe.”
Jack - Chapter 5
'’Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!”
Jack - Chapter 7
'’We musn’t let anything happen to Piggy, must we?’’
Jack - Chapter 8
'’He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.’’
Jack - Chapter 8 #2
'’The head is for the beast. It’s a gift.’’
Jack - Chapter 10
'’You can’t tell what he might do.’’
Jack - Chapter 11
'’You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!’’
