LOTF Chapter 1-6 Key quotes w/ gaps Flashcards
For a moment the boys were __ ______ ______ __ _______ with Piggy on the outside…
a closed circuit of sympathy
About choir boys: Something dark was fumbling along… the darkness was ___ ___ _______ ___ ______ ________.
not all shadow but mostly clothing
About jack: They knew very well why he hadn’t [killed the piglet]: because of ___ ________ __ ___ _____ _________ and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.
the enormity of the knife descending
About Piggy: “with the ______ __________ of a parent”
martyred expression
Jack says: I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, __‘__ ___ _________. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.
we’re not savages
____ says: We’ll have rules… then when anyone breaks ‘em - / Bollocks to the rules
Jack
On Jack and Ralph: They walked along, two _________ __ _________ ___ ______, unable to communicate.
continents of experience and feeling
About Jack: became less _ ______ than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees
a hunter
About Jack: He tried to convey the _________ __ _____ ____ ___ ____ that was swallowing him up.
compulsion to track down and kill
Jack says: If you’re hunting sometimes… you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but – being hunted, as if
something’s ______ ___ ___ ___ _____ in the jungle.
behind you all the time
About Roger: Here, invisible yet strong, was ___ _____ __ ___ ___ ____. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was ________ __ _ _______ that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.
the taboo of the old life // conditioned by a civilisation
On Jack’s ‘mask’: …the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, ________ ____ ______ and self-consciousness.
liberated from shame
Ralph’s thoughts: If faces where different when lit from above or below – what ___ _ _____? What was anything?
was a face
Ralph says: Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then – …then people _______ ______ __________.
started getting frightened
Piggy says: I know there ___‘_ __ _____ – not with claws and all that, I mean – but I know there isn’t no fear either … Unless –… Unless we get frightened of people.
isn’t no beast
