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Lord of the Flies - Chapters 3 and 4 Flashcards

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Huts on the Beach

When the chapter opens, one of the boys is hunting a pig - which one?

A

Jack.

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Huts on the Beach

What issues do Ralph and Simon face when trying to construct shelters for the group?

A

The liitluns keep running off.

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Huts on the Beach

“Meetings. Don’t we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk.” - who makes this complaint?

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Ralph.

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Huts on the Beach

“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” - which boy is being described here?

A

Jack

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Huts on the Beach

        "We want meat--" - who repeats this demand through the chapter?
A

Jack

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Huts on the Beach

Why are the littluns having trouble sleeping?

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Dreams of the beast keep them awake.

“As if,” said Simon, “the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?”

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Huts on the Beach

Which word are we told is “not mentioned now, were not mentionable”?

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Snakes.

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Huts on the Beach

“So we need shelters as a sort of–”

What word completes this quotation?

A

Home.

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Huts on the Beach

“He snatched up his spear and dashed it into the ground.” - which boy does this describe?

A

Jack

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Huts on the Beach

“I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!” - who speaks these lines to Jack?

A

Ralph

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Huts on the Beach

“He’s queer. He’s funny.”

Who are Ralph and Jack talking about with this conversation?

A

Simon

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Huts on the Beach

“They looked at each other, baffled, in _______ and _____.”

What words does Golding use to describe the relationship between Jack and Ralph here?

A

Love and hate.

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Huts on the Beach

“He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived Ralph into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked.“

Who is being described here?

A

Simon

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Huts on the Beach

What does Simon give to the littluns in this chapter?

A

Fruit from the trees.

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Huts on the Beach

What key location does Simon discover at the end of this chapter?

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The clearing: this will later be the scene of his discussions with ‘The Lord of the Flies’.

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Painted Faces and Long Hair

The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of “______”

What word does Golding use to describe the smaller boys?

A

Littluns.

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Painted Faces and Long Hair

They were used now to ____________ and a sort of chronic ________________. They suffered _______ _________ in the dark and huddled together for comfort.

What words complete this description of the littluns?

A

Stomach aches, diarrhoea, untold terrors.

18
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

_______ led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones.

Which boy is being described here?

A

Roger.

19
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

_____ stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry– threw it to miss.

Which boy throws the first stone in the novel?

A

Roger

20
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

Which event does Roger’s throwing of stones foreshadow?

A

The death of Piggy

21
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.”

What reasons does Golding give for why the stone is not thrown directly at Henry?

A

Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. 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.

22
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried.

What’s inside these two leaves?

A

White clay and red clay: the boys are going to paint their faces.

23
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

Why do the boys paint their faces in this chapter?

A

To help them hunt the pigs.

24
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“For hunting. Like in the war. You know–dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else–”

Who describes the paint like this?

A

Jack

25
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

After painting his face, Jack “began to dance and his laughter became a _______________”

What does Jack’s laughter turn into?

A

Bloodthirsty snarling.

26
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“the __________ was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid.”

“The ________ compelled them.”

What missing word completes these key quotations?

A

Mask.

27
Q

Painted Faces and Long Hair

“I’ve been thinking,” he said, “about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand, and then–”

Whose idea is this?

A

Piggy’s.

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Painted Faces and Long Hair

There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by _____, and __________, and __________.

What reasons do the boys have for treating Piggy like an outsider?

A

Fat, ass-mar and specs.

29
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

What does Ralph spot in this chapter?

A

A ship.

30
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

Why aren’t the boys rescued in this chapter?

A

The hunters have let the fire go out: therefore, ship fails to see their smoke signal.

31
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

We get our first glimpse of the hunters’ famous chant in this chapter. What is it?

A

“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”

32
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

What have the hunters been doing while they should have been watching the fire?

A

Killing their first pig.

33
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“There was ____________,” said Jack, laughing and shuddering, “you should have seen it!”

How does Jack describe the killing of the pig?

A

Lashings of blood.

34
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!”

Who shouts these lines?

A

Ralph

35
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

“You didn’t ought to have let that fire out. You said you’d keep the smoke going–”

What is Jack’s response to this complaint from Piggy?

A

He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach.

36
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

What gets broken in this chapter?

A

Piggy’s spectacles, or at least one side of them.

37
Q

Painted Faces and Long Hair

Who initially doesn’t get meat when they roast the pig? Who gives it to him?

A

Piggy doesn’t get meat. Simon gives him his portion, which angers Jack.

38
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Painted Faces and Long Hair

Who reenacts the death of the pig?

A

Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. As they danced, they sang.

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Painted Faces and Long Hair

What does Ralph decide to do at the end of this chapter?

A

Call an assembly.

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