Lord of the Flies Quotes

Question 1

A quote from when the boys arrive at the Island

Answer 1

“This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out in the sea. There aren’t any grownups anywhere”

Question 2

Ralph at one of the first meetings

Answer 2

“We can’t have everybody talking at once. We’ll have to have “Hands Up” like at school… I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking”

Question 3

Jack to Piggy after the first pig is killed

Answer 3

Eat.Damn you!

Question 4

Conflict between Jack and Ralph starts to arrise after Jack lets the fire goes out

Answer 4

Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong- we hunt! We’ll close in and beat and beat ad beat -

Question 5

Just before Simon is murdered

Answer 5

The dark sky was shattered by a blue-white scar. An instant later the noise was on them like the blow of a gigantic whip

Question 6

Just after Simon is murdered

Answer 6

The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness… The strange, attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapours, busied themselves round his head.

Question 7

Just before Piggy is murdered

Answer 7

High overhead Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the leaver

Question 8

The quote for when Piggy is murdered

Answer 8

The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist

Question 9

When the boys get rescued

Answer 9

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