LoTF BME Flashcards
Beginning quotes:
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Chapter 1
“All around him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat”
“Jack drew his knife again with a flourish.” But after raising his arm in the air “There came a pause, a hiatus,”
while the “pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk,”
“the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm”
Chapter 2
“The assembly was lifted towards safety by his words. They liked and now respected him. Spontaneously they began to clap” and they were “loud with applause”
Jack “carefully” held the “delicate thing” in his “sooty hands” He then agreed with Ralph saying “We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English.”
“except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked.”
he “breathed in gently with flared nostrils”
Chapter 3
“Flower and fruit grew together on the same tree”
there was also a “booming of a million bees at pasture”
Chapter 4
“Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.” Roger was protected by “parents and school and policemen and the law”.
“Rogers arm was conditioned”
The hunters “pretended to beat him.”
As they danced, they sang. ‘Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.’
Ralph watched them, envious and resentful.”
Middle quotes:
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Chapter 5
Littlun describing nightmare
“The vivid horror of this, so possible and so nakedly terrifying, held them all silent. The child’s voice went piping on from behind the white conch.”
” ‘What I mean is… maybe it’s only us.’… Simon went on. ‘We could be sort of…’ Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. Inspiration came to him. ‘What’s the dirtiest thing there is?’ “
Chapter 6
“a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs”
“A beats with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountain-top”
“Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
Chapter 7
“When you went to bed there was a bowl of cornflakes with sugar and cream. And the books - they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back up properly”
When Jack, Ralph and Roger went to look for the beast, they found “something like a great ape” sat before them. Then the “wind roared”. The “creature” they found lifted its head to show them the “ruin of a face”
Chapter 8
“He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint”
“Ralph kneeling by the remains of the fire like a sprinter at his mark and his face was half-hidden by hair and smut”
” “There isn’t anyone to help you. Only me. And i’m the Beast” Simons mouth laboured, brought forth audible words. “Pig’s head on a stick.” “Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill!” said the head”
End quotes:
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Chapter 9
“Over the island the build-up of clouds continued. A “steady current” heated air was “thrust to ten thousand feet”
“revolving masses of gas piled up the static until the air was ready to explode”
“At once the crowd surged after it,” “leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.”
“Then the clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall”
Chapter 10
“He was gesticulating, searching for a formula. “Oh Piggy!” Ralph’s voice, low and stricken”
“Ralph, cradling the conch, rocked himself to and fro.”
“He began to pound the mouth below him, using clenched fist as a hammer, he hit with more and more passionate hysteria as the face became slippery.”
Chapter 11
Ralph went to confront Jack to get Piggy’s glasses back. “He put the conch to his lips and began to blow. Savages appeared, painted out of recognition”
“They carried spears” to “defend the entrance.”
“The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand fragments and ceased to exist…His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed”
Chapter 12
When Ralph was running away from Jack and his tribe “He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet”
“Below him someone’s legs were getting tired.”
” “I’m, I’m-“ But there was no more to come. Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away”
“With filthy body, matted hair, unwiped nose, 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. The officer…was moved and a little embarrassed.”
