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Lord of the Flies - Chapters 7 and 8 Flashcards

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1
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Shadows and Tall Trees

What habit has Ralph developed at the start of this chapter?

A

Biting his nails.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or a twig”

What’s being described here?

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The boys’ hair - it’s grown since their time on the island.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“You’ll get back to where you came from.”

Who speaks these lines to Ralph?

A

Simon.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

How does Ralph describe Simon “curtly” in the chapter?

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“You’re batty.”

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment.”

Who kills the boar?

A

Ralph.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

What does Jack say that the boar is?

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The beast.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

Who plays the part of the pig in the boy’s re-enactment of the hunt?

A

Robert.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

How can you tell that the re-enactment of the hunt gets more violent?

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“Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain.”

The boys become increasingly violent.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

What do the boys start chanting as they close in on Robert?

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“_Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!_”

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“That was a good game.”

        "Just a game," said Ralph \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

How does Ralph deliver this line?

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Uneasily.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“We ought to have a ______,” said Maurice, “then we could do it properly.”

What does Maurice want to add to the reenactment of the hunt?

A

A drum.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“Supposing the beast’s up there?”

        Jack brandished his spear.

What does Jack say in response to this question?

A

“We’ll kill it.”

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Shadows and Tall Trees

Who have the boys left in charge of the littluns?

A

Piggy

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Shadows and Tall Trees

        "Why do you hate me?"

Who says this, and to whom?

A

Ralph says it towards Jack.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“I’m going up the mountain to look for the beast–now.” Then the supreme sting, the casual, bitter word.

What word does Jack use to challenge Ralph’s authority here?

A

“Coming?”

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Shadows and Tall Trees

Which of the boys go up the mountain to hunt the beast?

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Ralph, Jack and Roger.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

What do the boys find on the top of the mountain? What is it really?

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“A creature that bulged.”

The parachutist who landed on the island earlier in the story.

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Shadows and Tall Trees

“Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face.”

How do the boys react to discovering the dead body?

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They run away, thinking it is ‘the beast’.

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Gift For the Darkness

        "Are you sure? Really sure, I mean?"

Who questions whether or not the boys really saw the beast?

A

Piggy

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Gift For The Darkness

What phyiscal features does the beast have according to Ralph?

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“Teeth” and “big black eyes”

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21
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Gift For The Darkness

What can the boys no longer have because the beast lives there?

A

Fire on the mountain.

22
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Gift For The Darkness

What is Jack’s solution to the problem of the beast?

A

Hunt it down and kill it, obviously.

23
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Gift For The Darkness

Who uses the conch to call a meeting for the first time?

A

Jack.

24
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Gift For the Darkness

“________ thinks you’re cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. And that’s not all.”

What does Jack say to his hunters during the meeting?

A

Ralph

25
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Gift For The Darkness

Who does Jack compare Ralph to during the meeting? What else does he say about him?

A

“He’s like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief.”

26
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Gift For The Darkness

Jack calls a vote during the meeting on whether or not Ralph should still be chief. What’s the outcome?

A

Jack loses, and he doesn’t take it well. “Slowly the red drained from Jack’s cheeks, then came back with a painful rush”

27
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Gift for the Darkness

What is Jack’s response to losing the vote at the meeting?

A

“I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.”

He leaves the tribe and disappears into the jungle.

28
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Gift For The Darkness

What does Simon propose the boys do?

A

Climb the mountain and confront the beast.

29
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Gift for the Darkness

What does Piggy propose the boys do after the meeting breaks up?

A

Move the fire from the mountain down to the shoreline - “only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest this.”

30
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Gift For the Darkness

“The greatest ideas are the simplest.”

What idea is being described here?

A

Piggy’s idea to build a fire - all the boys get involved, even Piggy!

31
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Gift For The Darkness

Which boys sneak off during the fire building to join Jack?

A

Bill, Roger and Maurice. Roger is probably the most significant.

32
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Gift For the Darkness

Who else leaves the group in this chapter, but not to join Jack?

A

Simon - he retreats to his clearing.

33
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Gift For the Darkness

“Presently he was thirsty, and then very thirsty. He continued to sit.”

Who is being described here?

A

Simon

34
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Gift For the Darkness

Jack addresses his new tribe - what does he propose to do about the beast?

A

“And about the beast. When we kill we’ll leave some of the kill for it. Then it won’t bother us, maybe.”

They are going to try and appease the beast with an offering of meat.

35
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Gift For The Darkness

This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror. Roger ran round the heap, prodding with his spear whenever pigflesh appeared. Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife. Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight.

What atmosphere is created when the boys kill the pig?

A

Violent and terrifying - look at the use of language here!

36
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Gift For the Darkness

What do Jack’s tribe spread over their face after killing the pig?

A

Pig’s blood.

37
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Gift For The Darkness

What does Robert shout after the death of the sow?

A

“Right up her ass!”

38
Q

Gift For The Darkness

What problem do Jack’s tribe encounter when they go to cook the meat? What is their solution?

A

They have no way to make fire - Jack says: “We’ll raid them and take fire.”

39
Q

Gift For The Darkness

“Sharpen a stick at both ends.”

Who says this, and to whom? What does this quotation reveal?

A

Jack says it to Roger. It reveals the boys growing desire for violence.

40
Q

Gift For The Darkness

What do Jack’s tribe place on top of the sharpened stick?

A

The pig’s head as an offering for the beast.

41
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Gift For The Darkness

Who secretly watches Jack’s tribe and begins a conversation with the pig’s head?

A

A very dehrydrated and possibly hallucinating Simon.

42
Q

Gift For the Darkness

How is the pig’s head referred to in the chapter?

A

The Lord of the Flies.

43
Q

Gift For The Darkness

What could the flies represent in this chapter?

A

Flies are attracted to dead, rotting things - they foreshadow the deaths to come and the ‘rotting’ of the boys’ civilised way of life.

44
Q

Gift For the Darkness

“At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood–”

What completes this quotation when Simon gazes at the pig’s head?

A

“and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.”

45
Q

Gift For The Darkness

“No, not it . . . I mean . . . what makes things break up like they do?”

Who says this in the chapter?

A

Ralph.

46
Q

Gift For The Darkness

Who returns to the group, and what do they offer?

A

Jack, and he invites all the boys to a feast.

47
Q

Gift For The Darkness

“You are a silly little boy,” said _____________, “just an ignorant, silly little boy.”

Who says this, and to whom?

A

The Lord of the Flies says this, to Simon.

48
Q

Gift For The Darkness

“Fancy thinking ___________was something you could hunt and kill!”

How does the Lord of the Flies taunt Simon here?

A

“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”

49
Q

Gift For the Darkness

“You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”

What is the best explanation for the Lord of the Flies?

A

That it represents the savage nature inside the boys.

50
Q

Gift For The Darkness

“We are going to have fun on this island!”

Who says this towards the end of the chapter?

A

The Lord of the Flies

51
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Gift For The Darkness

What happens to Simon at the end of the chapter?

A

He fell down and lost consciousness.

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