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Lord of the flies quotes Flashcards

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Chapter 1 - asthma

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“Sucks to your ass-mar!”

ass-mar - mimics piggys pronunciation - makes fun

sucks - he doesnt care

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Chapter 1 - conch

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“a conch he called it”

knows what it is

he called - remembers the information - clever

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Chapter 1 - intelligent

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“we can use this to call the others”

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Chapter 1 - Jack intro

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“the eye was first attracted to a black, bat like creature that danced on the sand”

creature - automatically links jack to the beast and therefore evil/savagery/darkness

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Chapter 1 - Jack control

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“the boy who controlled them”

controlled - dictates them - hilter figure

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Chapter 1 - Jack and ralph bond

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“smiled at each other with shy liking”

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Chapter 2 - Jack undermines

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“we’ll look for the snake too”

undermines ralphs authority - links to controlling the boys and shows his want for power

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Chapter 2 - fire

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“we must make a fire”

imperative - takes control - wants to help

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Chapter 2 - Jack violent

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“jack snatched the glasses off his face”

snatched - implies violence and possessiveness over objects that aren’t his

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Chapter 2 - bad side

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“beneath them, on the bad side of the mountain, the drum roll continued”

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Chapter 3 - time passed

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“his sandy hair, considerably longer now”

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Chapter 3 - Jacks violence

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“the compulsion to track down and kill”

compulsion - he has to do it - shows savagery appearing

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Chapter 4 - war paint

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“no longer at himself, but at an awesome stranger”

awesome - he thinks the savagery is worthy of praise and admiration

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Chapter 4 - piggy not changing

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“he was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow”

never - unchanging

piggy is symbolic of civilisation so his unchanging nature shows the capability to be civilised is still there

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Chapter 4 - fire ralph

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“they’ve let the bloody fire out”

bloody - expletive/swear shows his anger

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Chapter 4 - chant

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“kill the pig. cut her throat. spill her blood.”

semantic field of violence - shows savagery

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Chapter 5 - ralph authority

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“you voted me for chief. now you do what I say”

do - imperative - ralph becomes more controllimg

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Chapter 5 - jack breaks rules

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“who cares”

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Chapter 5 - jack kill beast

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“we’ll close in and beat and beat and beat”

triplet exaggerates the violent nature of the act

close in - surrounding and trapping

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Chapter 5 - jacks feelings about ralph

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“he hates you too, ralph”

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Chapter 6 - piggy fear

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“he hung about near for all his brave words”

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Chapter 6 - jacks excitement about beast

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“that’ll be a real hunt! who’ll come”

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Chapter 7 - ralph hunts

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“i hit him! the spear stuck in_”

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Chapter 7 - ralph attention

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“he tried for their attention”

tried - desperate for them to notice him

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Chapter 7 - jack threat robert

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“jack had him by the hair and was brandishing a knife”

brandishing - connotes anger - shows danger
alternatively it can be done in excitement - shows brutality

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Chapter 7 - ralph question to jack

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“why do you hate me?”

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Chapter 8 - jack overthrows

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“hands up … whoever wants ralph not to be chief?”

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Chapter 8 - piggy intelligent

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“only piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain”

intellectual daring - makes him seem superior and very clever - he stands out from the others

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Chapter 5 - simon beast

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“What I mean is… Maybe it’s only us…”

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Chapter 8 - beast to simon

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

fancy - patronising

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Chapter 8 - jack sacrifice

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“we’ll leave some of the kill for it. then it wont bother us maybe”

maybe - questioning - hints at some fear/trepidation felt by jack

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Chapter 9 - piggy loses composure

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“stop it’ he shouted ‘d’you hear?”

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Chapter 9 - jack commands

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“take them some meat”

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Chapter 9 - protection

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“my hunters will protect you from the beast”

my - possessive of people - controlling

protect - implies the beast is dangerous - manipulative

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Chapter 10 - ralph guilt

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“that was simon…that was murder”

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Chapter 9 - beast

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“they could see how small the beast was…it’s blood was staining the sand”

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Chapter 10 - ralph realisation

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“i’m frightened. of us.”

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Chapter 10 - jack savage

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“he’s going to beat wilfred”

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Chapter 10 - fear -> power

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“he may come again”

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Chapter 10 - glasses=power

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“from his left hand dangled piggy’s glasses”

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Chapter 11 - paint

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“the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought”

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Chapter 11 - piggy is killed

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“his head opened and stuff came out”

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Chapter 11 - metaphor of death

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“like a pigs after it has been killed”

comparison to pig - dehumanising

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Chapter 12 - old life gone

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“this was not bill, this was a savage”

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Chapter 12 - island is on fire

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“the burning wreckage of the island”

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Chapter 12 - ralph cries

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“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy”

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Chapter 2 - sticks up

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“We used [Piggy’s] specs…He helped that way”

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Chapter 7 - comfort

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“You’ll get back all right. I think so, anyway”

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