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How has Ralph’s attitude toward Piggy since the beginning? (Ch2-4)

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At the beginning, he seemed annoyed with Piggy, but now he doesn’t care for him much because he doesn’t stand up for him when Jack hits him and doesn’t give him meat

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What are Ralph’s main responsibilities and what is his attitude toward them? (Ch 2-4)

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He is the groups chief, he’s making shelters, and he’s tired of no one helping him

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What does Ralph getting mad in Ch 4 show about his character?

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Ralph has lost his more care free nature, and is fed up with no one doing anything

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How does Piggy spend his days? (Ch 2-4)

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Beside the bathing pool

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How has Piggy changed throughout the book? (Ch2-4)

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He was more quiet but is now more outspoken

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What is Jack’s top priority, and what does it reveal about him?

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Hunting, he seems to think that they will never get rescued, and the other boys seem him as weak

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What does Jack’s ritual at the end of Ch 4 demonstrate about him and his followers?

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They are becoming more wild and challenging Ralph’s rule

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What info do we learn about Simon’s personality and appearance? (Ch 2-4)

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He is scrawny, but the most-level headed. He stands up for Piggy so he realizes ignoring each other will get them no where

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What does Roger do to Henry? What does it reveal about him? (Ch 2-4)

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He throw rocks at him, so is a trouble maker

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How does the paint/clay mask effect Jack?

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He becomes more animalistic and his laughter turns into a blood thirsty snarl

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How are Piggy’s glasses broken?

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Jack slaps him causing them to fly off

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What is the symbolism behind the glasses breaking?

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No fire, becoming less civilized, Piggy becomes a liability

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Why is Ralph made at Jack about the fire?

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Because a ship came and there was no smoke

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What is important about Jack punching Piggy

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New level of contact is introduced

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How does Ralph feel about life on the island? (Ch5)

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It’s wearing him down; less fun

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What’s different about the assembly in Ch 5?

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Strictly business and it’s later than most

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“…what was a face? What was anything?”

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Ralph’s mind is leaving him, do you really now what people are lime

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What is the assembly for in Ch 5?

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To put things straight

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What are some problems that Ralph brings up?

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Need to fill up the coconut shells with water, help build shelters, and use the lavatory by the rocks so the current can wash it away

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What is the cause of every thing breaking up?

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Everyone is shrieking jobs and getting scared

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Why is the mountain the only place for the fire?

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It takes eagerly to build smaller ones and he doesn’t want to set the island on fire again

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Piggy says there is no need to fear a beast because there isn’t one. What does he suggest they might end up fearing?

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Each other

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Who was wondering around the night prior to the meeting and were was he going?

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Simon, his place

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Many littluns start crying, who stops them and how?

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Maurice by falling off the log

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Where does Percival say the beast comes from?

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The sea

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Who does Simon say the beast is

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All the boys (sin)

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What does Piggy say about Jack being chief and about fearing him?

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If Jack was chief then there would be no fire and only hunting, they’d be there until they died (Jack would hurt Piggy)

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What do Piggy, Ralph, and Simon say about grownups?

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They would solve everything

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What is the atmosphere before the hunters arrive in the killing of the sow?

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It was calm because the pigs were sleeping in the cool shade

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What is emphasized about the sow

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A lot of sexual language; rapping her

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What is emphasized about the boys

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They’re excited about the blood and getting it over each other, very war-like (weapons)

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From a hunter point of view, how are the boys hunting the sow wrong?

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They’re killing a mother (not thinking of the future) and they’re torturing her

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What language is used in killing the sow?

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It’s very graphic, and they put the head on a stick as an offering to the beast

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How do the boys react after they’ve killed the sow

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They’re excited about the feast they will have

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What does Jack do with the pig’s head

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Puts it on a stick for the beast

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What’s going on in the world of adults

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War

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What is the beast

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A dead soldier

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Who are the first persons to see the beast and what do they do?

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Samneric, run away

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How does Simon feel about this latest beast?

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He thinks its just one of the boys

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What is Ralph’s personal hell?

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His responsibility as chief and himself; can’t show fear

40
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What might the boys dirtiness symbolize?

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Them growing less civilized

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What is the significance of Ralph repeating “I hit him.” The pig.

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He’s surprised and excited he helped

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Who do the boys tease and treat like the pig? How does Ralph participate?

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Robert, Ralph pokes him and shouts “kill him”

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What does Ralph ask Jack that makes them silent and embarrassed?

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“Why do you hate me?”

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What three boys go to confront the beast? Why are they crying?

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Ralph, Jack, and Roger. Ashes blow in their eyes

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What do the boys discover on the mountain?

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The soldier

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What does Simon tell Ralph

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You’ll get back all right

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Why is the top of the mountain covered in ashes

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They burned the mountain

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In ch 8 who calls a meeting with the conch

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Jack

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Who leaves the group

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Jack

50
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Who suggest they confront the beast

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Simon

51
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Who suggests they built a signal fire on the beach

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Piggy

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Wha do the boys feast on at the end of the chapter

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Fruit

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How does Piggy react to Jack leaving

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He’s happy because he feels as if he can talk now

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What does his line, “what else is there to do,” indicate about Simon

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He wants to prove the bast isn’t real

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What was Simon going to do when he staggered to the pig feast

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Tell the others that the beast is a dead soldier

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What units the boys when Piggy and Ralph arrive at the big roast

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Piggy gets burned (ignoring him)

57
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What happens to Simon

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They kill him

58
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In ch 11 why do the boys use the conch though there is only four of them

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To show they’re still civilized

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How does Piggy praise Jack and criticize Ralph

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Jack got things done and Ralph only talks

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Why do the four boys want to bathe before confronting Jacks group

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Among savages they’re still civilized

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Who is painted

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Jacks savaged tribe

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Who is killed by whom and how

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Piggy is killed by Roger launching a rock in complete hysteria

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What does Piggy say of Simon’s death compared to ch 10

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He says it’s murder instead of an accident

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What happens to Ralph at the end of the chapter

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He is attacked and flees

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Who convinces Ralph’s group they need to confront Jack

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Piggy

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Who is on guard at Jack’s fort

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Roger

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Which boys fight with spears then fists

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Jack and Ralph

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What happens to the conch?

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It shatters

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What is the symbolism behind the conch breaking?

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All order has been lost and they will become savages (Jack’s tribe)

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How does Roger feel about killing Piggy

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He is a bit sorry, but he’s so scared of Jack that he won’t show it

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Castle Rock

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Punishment, torture, dictatorship

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Darkness

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Ignorance and fear

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Piggy’s glasses

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Ability to understand and know

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Mountain

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Perspective, power, and truth

75
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Dead paratrooper

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Violence and death in the adult world

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Scar

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Humans tendency to ruin nature

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Conch

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Authority and order

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Fire

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Hope, reaching out for help

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Painted face

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Means of hiding one’s true self

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The beast

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Terror created out of irrational fear

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Island

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Microcosm of the world

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Beach

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Safety and community

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Forest

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Secrecy, hiding and the unknown

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Lord of the Flies

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Evil, decay, and destruction

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Ocean

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Huge gap that often separates humans from each other

86
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How do we know the pig isn’t really talking

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It’s dead

87
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Who does Ralph discover is on guard at Castle Rock after he is forced into hiding

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Samneric

88
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According to what he has heard more than once, which boy is most to be feared

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Roger

89
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What is thrown at Ralph in an effort to kill him or force him out of hiding

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A boulder

90
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What are the options Ralph considers when he is being hunted

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Continue hiding, climb a tree, or break the line

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What has been prepare for Ralph when the boys catch him

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A stick sharpened at both ends

92
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Who does Ralph meet at the beach

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Naval officer

93
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How were the boys found

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He saw their smoke

94
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What did Ralph weep for

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Wise friend Piggy, end of innocence, and darkness of man’s heart

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