Lord of the Flies Flashcards
“simple…
arragonce”
“choir!…
stand still”
“we ought…
to have a chief”
“let’s have…
a vote!”
“dreary…
obedience”
“the most…
obvious leader was Jack”
“delicate…
thing”
“Jack’s in…
charge of the choir”
“with the…
directness of genuine leadership”
“you voted…
me chief”
“I’m calling…
an assembly”
“painted…
savages giggled”
“Ralph cried…
out hopelessly”
“fragile…
shining beauty”
“a thousand…
white fragments”
“very…
fat”
“fatly…
naked”
“sucks…
to your ass-mar”
“we may…
stay here till we die”
“shut up…
fatty”
“his real…
name’s Piggy!”
“make a…
list. We ought to have a meeting”
“what are we?…
humans or savages?”
“I got…
the conch”
“led…
like a dog”
“acting like…
a crowd of kids”
“to have rules…
and agree, or to hunt and kill?
“no time…
for even a grunt”
“the body…
of Piggy was gone”
“for a…
moment, the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside”
“martyred…
expression of a parent”
“joined…
in an effort by the burden”
“eyes…
that proclaimed no devil”
“golden…
body”
“struck…
them into silence”
“don’t…
argue”
“moved…
the conch gently”
“rules are…
the only thing we’ve got”
“desire to…
squeeze and hurt was overmastering”
“cradling…
the conch”
“I ought…
to be chief”
“blush of…
mortification”
“became less…
a hunter than a furtive thing”
“the madness…
came into his eyes”
“humiliating…
tears”
“safe from…
shame or self-consciousness behind the mask”
“Ralph wept…
for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and the fall through the air of the wise, true friend called Piggy”
“they are going…
to hunt you down”
“sharpened…
a stick at both ends”
“kill the pig!…
Cut her throat! Bash her in!”
“do our…
dance”
“dressed…
Simon’s course hair with brightness”
“bollocks…
to the rules!”
“they do…
what I want”
“laughter…
became blood-thirsty snarling”
“Roger’s arm…
was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”
“taboo of…
old life”
“slammed it…
into a tree trunk”
“demented…
but partly secure society”
“utterly…
alone”
“Simon became…
inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness”
“maybe it’s…
only us”
“inexpertly…
blown conch”
“scream, struck…
bit, tore”
“boy’s armed…
with sticks”
“leapt…
like a squirrel”
“he tried to…
convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”
“we want meat…
…we need shelters”
“naked to…
the waist”
“Roger advanced…
upon them as one wielding a nameless authority”
“uniformed…
superiority”
“dog-like…
uncomfortably on all fours”
