LOFT Quotes Flashcards
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The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
Begining of the book relates to a sweater
Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. (1)
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You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went,
Mildness/devil
but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil. (1)
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“I don’t care what they call me,” he said confidentially, “so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school…
Piggy
they used to call me ‘Piggy.’” Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up. “Piggy! Piggy!”(1)
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“…A conch he called it…It’s ever so valuable…ever so expensive…In colour the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with fading pink.
Description of Conch
Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. Ralph shook sand out of the deep tube. (1)
Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing.
Description of the choir
The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. (1)
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“You’re talking too much,” said Jack Merridew. “Shut up, Fatty.”
Real name
Laughter arose. “He’s not Fatty,” cried Ralph, “his real name’s Piggy!” (1)
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“I ought to be chief,” said Jack with simple arrogance, “
C sharp
because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.” (1)
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…what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out:
Attractive young boy
there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. (1)
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The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish…
Stabing and blood
They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood. (1)
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“…We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school
Conch privileges
…I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking.” (2)
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“We’ll have rules!” he cried excitedly.
LOTS OF RULES
“Lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ‘em-” (2)
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“Tell us about the snake-thing…Now he says it was a beastie…He says the beastie came in the dark…
Tree ropes
He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches…”
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“We want to be rescued; and of course we shall be rescued…If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us.
Mountain smoke
So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.” (2)
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“Here- let me go!” His voice rose to a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face.
Piggy is blind
“Mind out! Give ’em back! I can hardly see! You’ll break the conch!” (2)
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“The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,”
Shut up
said Jack, “so you shut up.”
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“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.
English are good at everything
We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.” (2)
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Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter. his nose only a few inches from the humid earth…
Jacks a furry
Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped. (3)
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A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand;
Naked roadman
and except for a pair a tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. (3)
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“We want meat.” (Jack) “Well, we haven’t got any yet. And we want shelters.” (Ralph)
Social anxiety
It later describes that, ‘They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.’ (3)
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Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.
Brainwashed by Society
Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins. (4)
