Lord Of The Flies

Question 1

Quotes on Piggy (Beginning: Chapters 1-4)

Answer 1

‘Naked crooks of his knees’

‘What intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy’

‘Like kids … acting like a crowd of kids’

‘With the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch… and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar’

‘Everyone but Piggy was busy’

‘Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch’

‘Piggy was a bore; his fat, his Asmara and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg’

‘Piggy was an outsider’

Question 2

Quotes on Jack (Beginning: Chapters 1-4)

Answer 2

‘The boy who controlled them’
‘The boy…vaulted onto the platforms’
‘Marching’
‘I ought to be chief said Jack with simple arrogance, ‘’because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp’
‘The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be’
‘All the same you need an army -for hunting. Hunting Pigs‘
‘Before i could kill it -but-next time’
‘There isn’t a snake thing. But if there was a snake we’d hunt it and kill it’
‘Ralph and Jack looked at each other while society paused around them’
‘That strange invisible light of friendship’
‘The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain’
‘I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all we’re not savages’
‘a shriek of terror as Jack snatched the glasses off his face’
‘Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only inches from the humid earth’
‘Dog-like’
‘Ape-like’
He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up’
‘The madness came into his eyes again’
‘I thought I might -kill’

‘In the forest…when your hunting… when you’re on your own… you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but -being hunted, as if somethings behind you all the time in the jungle’
‘Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was’
‘In love and hate’
‘Only just sufficient to bring them together again’
‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling’
‘The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self - conscience’

Question 3

Militaristic Quotes (Beginning: Chapters 1-4)

Question 4

Quotes on Ralph (Beginning: Chapters 1-4)

Question 5

Quotes on Roger (Beginning: Chapter 1-4)

Question 6

Introduction of evil (Beginning: Chapter 1-4)

Question 7

Descent into savagery (Beginning: Chapter 1-4)
Links to introduction into evil
(Includes irony… “We ought to have rules…..”)

Question 8

Lord of the Flies (The beast)