lord of the flies quotes Flashcards
he was a skinny…
vivid little boy (about simon)
simon found for them…
the fruit they could not reach
simon became inarticulate…
in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness
“Acting like…
a crowd of kids!” (Piggy)
“What are we?…”
“Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?” (Piggy)
Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them…
carefully on the ledge, and tested the water with one toe
He snatched his knife…
out of the sheath and slammed into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy (Jack)
Jack seized…
the conch
Jack himself shrank…
at this cry with a hiss of in drawn breath
Ape-like…
among the tangle of trees (Jack)
He tried to convey…
the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up (Jack)
Looped fantasy…
of forest creepers (setting)
Blue flowers…
of the mountain side (setting)
Glittering…
sea (setting)
in the middle of the scar…
he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy (Ralph)
A mildness…
about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil (Ralph)
“Be sucking my thumb next…”
he looked round, furtively (Ralph)
He felt the need…
of witnesses (Ralph)
Ralph wept…
for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy
stood there among the skull like…
coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin (setting)
pleased despite himself…
at even this much recognition (Piggy)
He noticed blood…
on his hands and grimaced distastefully (Jack)
He held the shell up…
instead and showed it to them and they understood (the conch)
The rock struck Piggy…
a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist (the conch)
Roger stooped, picked up…
a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry– threw it to miss
cradling the…
great cream shell (the conch)
there was a slight, furtive…
boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy (Roger)
Roger, with a sense of…
delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever.
Piggy asked no names…
He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in Merridew’s voice. He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his glasses
liberated from…
shame and self-consciousness (about Jack near the end of the book, when he turns into a ruthless ‘leader’)
painted and…
garlanded … like an idol (Jack)
There were no words…
and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws (used to describe simon’s murder)
searching for…
a formula (Piggy, about Simon’s death)
Roger’s arm was…
conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins (when Roger threw the stones to miss Henry)
Piggy was no…
chief (noted by Ralph)
