Lord Of The Flies Quotes Flashcards

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Chapter 1 jack

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I aught to be chief because I’m chapter choicest and head boy

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Chapter 1 leadership Ralph

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We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting

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Chapter 2 responsibility Ralph

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There aren’t any grown ups we shall have to look after ourselves

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Chapter 2 jack

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We’ll have rules,lots of rules then when anyone breaks em.

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Chapter 3 jack

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‘his bare back was a mass of dark freckles and peeling sunburn’

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Chapter 3 jack

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‘he tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up’

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Chapter 4

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At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like an angry eye

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Chapter 4 Roger

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Roger stooped picked up a stone aimed and threw it at Henry threw it to miss

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Chapter 4

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They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it

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Chapter 5 Ralph

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Look at us! How many are we? And yet we can’t keep a fire going to make smoke. Don’t you understand

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Chapter 5 jack

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“Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat

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Chapter 6

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However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.

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Chapter 6

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There’s no food here,” said Ralph, “and no shelter. Not much fresh water.” “This would make a wizard fort.”

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Chapter 7 Robert

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Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain…

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Chapter 7

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Robert snarled at him. Ralph entered into the play and everybody laughed

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16
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Chapter 8 jack

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

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Chapter 8 Simon

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

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Chapter 9

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Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence.

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Chapter 9

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At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.

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Chapter 10 Robert

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He’s going to beat Wilfred.” “What for?” Robert shook his head doubtfully.

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Chapter 10 jack

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From his left hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses.

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Chapter 11

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They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.

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Chapter 11

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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist

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Chapter 11

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Roger threw between the twins aimed to miss

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Chapter 11

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Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder

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Chapter 12 ralph

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Don’t scream

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Chapter 12

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Great heaviness of smokelay between the island and the sun

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Chapter 12

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Roger who carried death in his hand

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Chapter 12 officer

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Thought that a pack of British boys would have put up a better show than this

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Important quotes

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They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate

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Quotes

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“The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.”

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Quotes

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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood

33
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Jack

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His specs – use them as burning glasses

34
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Chapter 11-12

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Sharpen a stick at both ends

35
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Simon

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Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it’s only us

36
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The separate noises of the fire merged into a drumroll that seemed to shake the mountain.

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The first time the signal fire is lit, it rages out of control. Readers note that one of the “littluns,” the boy with a mulberry mark on his face, most likely dies in this fire as he’s never seen again. At first, the signal fire symbolizes rescue. But as it grows out of control, it symbolizes danger and death

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Lord of the flies

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This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.”

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During an epileptic fit, Simon imagines that the pig’s head on the stick is talking to him. Here, Golding makes clear that the pig’s head, which is also referred to as Lord of the Flies, another name for the Devil, is a symbol of the beast, which represents evil. During his hallucination, Simon understands that the beast is not something that can be killed because it exists inside humans

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What are you doing out here all alone? Aren’t you afraid of me? . . . There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And I’m the Beast.”