Lord of the Flies Savagery Quotes Flashcards
‘This time Ralph expressed the ____ of his ____ by ____ to knock Simon down.’
Which chapter?
‘This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down.’
Chapter 1
When the boys couldn’t kill the first piglet:
‘They ____ very well why he hadn’t: because of the ________ of the knife ________ and ____ into ____ flesh; because of the ________ blood.’
Which chapter?
‘They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.’
Chapter 1
About Jack not being able to kill the piglet:
‘Next time there would be no ____. He looked round ____, ____ them to ________.’
Which chapter?
‘Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict.’
Chapter 1
‘The boys lay, panting like ____.’
Which chapter?
‘The boys lay, panting like dogs.’
Chapter 2
“The conch doesn’t ____ on top of the mountain,” said Jack, “so you ____ ____ .”
Which chapter?
“The conch doesn’t count on top of the mountain,” said Jack, “so you shut up.”
Chapter 2
‘Jack turned ____.’
Which chapter?
‘Jack turned fiercely.’
Chapter 2
‘The _____ and the _ made him savage.’
Which chapter?
‘The knowledge and the awe made him savage.’
Chapter 2
‘His __ only a few ____ from the humid earth.’
Which chapter?
‘His nose only a few inches from the humid earth.’
Chapter 3
‘A ____ stick… ____ from his right hand.’
Which chapter?
‘A sharpened stick… trailed from his right hand.’
Chapter 3
‘____, maddening - the ____ of meat.’
Which chapter?
‘seductive, maddening - the promise of meat.’
Chapter 3
Only between chapter 2 and 3 Jack’s ‘stick’ changes to a what?
A spear.
‘All you can talk about is ___, ___, ___!’
Which chapter?
‘All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!’
Chapter 3
‘He began to dance and his ____ became a ____ ____.’
Which chapter?
‘He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.’
Chapter 4
About Jack
‘The ____ knife in his hand.’
Which chapter?
‘The bloodied knife in his hand.’
Chapter 4
‘____ beat about Simon on the mountain-top with ____ ____.’
Which chapter?
‘Passion beat about Simon on the mountain-top with awful wings.’
Chapter 4
When Ralph gives in and accepts meat:
‘____ it like a wolf.’
Which chapter?
‘gnawed it like a wolf.’
Chapter 4
When discussing killing the pig while eating its meat:
‘The first ____ had ____ its hind quarters, so then the ____ could ____ in and ____ and ____-‘
Which chapter?
‘The first blow had paralyzed its hind quarters, so then the circle could close in and beat and beat-‘
Chapter 4
When was the chant first made and what is it?
After eating the meat of the first pig they killed in chapter 4.
‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in’
‘The assembly ____.’
Which chapter?
‘The assembly roared.’
Chapter 5
‘The dancing, ____ boys had ____ themselves away till their ____ was ____ but a ____ ____.’
Which chapter?
‘The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm.’
Chapter 5
When Jack’s left forearm had ‘On the outside was a ____; not ____, ____ ____.’
‘____ ____ on Jack.’
Which chapter?
When Jack’s left forearm had ‘On the outside was a rip; not much, but bloody.’
‘Attention focused on Jack.’
Chapter 7
‘____ in the energy and ____ in the ____.’
Which chapter?
‘panic in the energy and hysteria in the cheefulness.’
Chapter 8
‘____ to her in ____, excited’.
Which chapter?
‘wedded to her in lust, excited’.
Chapted 8
During Simon’s murder:
‘There were no ____, and no ____ but the ____ of ____ and ____.’
Which chapter?
‘There were no words, and no movement but the tearing of teeth and claws.’
Chapter 9
‘A ____ raised his hand.’
Which chapter?
‘A savage raised his hand.’
Chapter 10
“They understood only ____ ____ the ____ into ____ that the ____ paint brought.”
Which chapter?
“They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.”
Chapter 11
About the parachutist:
‘Something like a ____ ____ was sitting asleep’
Which chapter?
‘Something like a great ape was sitting asleep’
Chapter 7
‘They were ____ to ____, breathing ____, ____ and ____.’
Which chapter?
‘They were chest to chest, breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring.’
Chapter 11
‘This was a ____ whose image ____ to ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ of a boy in ____ and ____.’
Which chapter?
‘This was a boy whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.’
Chapter 12
