LOTF Character Quotes Flashcards
Ralph quotes
‘The boy with fair hair’
”I’m frightened of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home”
”which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”
“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 fire is the most important thing”
Piggy quotes
“What’s grown-ups gonna think?”
“I know there isn’t no beast”
“Life… is scientific”
“Acting like a crowd of kids!”
“Fatty!” “Fat slug!” “Give me my specs” “Assmar!” He is inferior, outsider
“His head opened and stuff came out and turned red”
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
Jack quotes
“I ought to be chief… because I can sing C sharp”
“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.”
“I thought I might kill”
“‘I cut the pig’s throat’ and yet twitched as he said it”
“Ape like”
“Bollocks to the rules!”
“We’ll use a littlun”
Simon
“Maybe its only us”
“Simon found for them fruit they could not reach”
“Simon became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness”
“Batty” “Cracked” Outsider
“A silver shape beneath steadfast constellations, Simon’s body moved out towards the open sea”
Silver shape quote analysis - Celestial element to his send off - a mythical aspect is shown through his death, provoking ideas about Simon as a christ like figure. Also, he is the only boy who escapes from the island - he dies but his body floats away. The others either turn savage or their bodies stay on the island. This shows how SImon is able to escape the svagery on the island, and also on earth. The horror of his death is contrasted by the beauty of his send off
