Lord Of the Flies Characters Flashcards
Jack Quotes
START- The freckles on Jacks face appeared under a blush of mortification
MID-I cut the pigs throat
END- The chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in white and red. The tribe lay in a semi circle around him
Ralph Quotes
- Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a mans heart and fall through the air of a true wise friend called Piggy
- I’d like to put on war paint and be savage, but we must keep the fire burning.
- That was simon…that was murder (only character to admit)
- The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering
Piggy Quotes
END -True wise friend called Piggy
The rock struck Piggy […] the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist”
MID -The first thing we ought to have made was shelters
-What intelligence that had been shown was traceable to Piggy
START -Piggy stood above the platform still holding the conch
Littleuns Quotes
-“Somebody’s got to look after them” > “nobody has so
far”
-(Percival can recite whole name at start but by end its) “faded clean away”
-Scattered everywhere
- sucks to the littleuns
Simon Quotes
- simon found for them the fruit they could not reach
- skinny vivid boy
- I wanted– to go to a place…just a place i know. A place in the jungle.
- You’ll get back alright. I think so, anyway. ( knows his death)
“candle buds” “lay in the mat of creepers” “butterflies still danced”
Rodger Quotes
MIDDLE- aimed to miss
MID- taboo of the old life
END- delirious abandonment
END- You dont know roger, hes a terror
END -sharpened a stick on both ends
Island Quotes
-The scar
-The water was warmer than his blood
-Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along 15
-on the unfriendly side of the island, the drum roll continued 47
-The were on the lip pf the cirque….outside was the dark blue of the sea 25
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Quotes for loss of innocence
START- “we can’t have everyone talking at once […] we’ll have to have hand up
MIDDLE- “I cut the pigs throat”
END- Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of a mans heart and the fall through the air of a true wise friend called Piggy
Quotes for savagery
start: “consequence of the blood”
middle: “gnaws meat”
“Right up her ass”
end: The savage “in the open screaming, snarling, bloody. He swung the stake”
Quotes for civilisation/power/leadership
start: “we can’t have everyone talking at once […] we’ll have to have hand up
start: He lifted the conch. “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.”
start/middle : “bollocks to the rules”
end: The was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch
Quotes for fear
START- “beastie” littluns begin to fear
MIDDLE- “soon the darkness was full of claws, full of
awful unknown
END-“Ralph screamed, a scream of fright and anger and desparation”
