LOTF Questions Flashcards
When was the novel published?
1954
Golding served in the navy of which war?
World War II
Why did Golding have detailed experience of how boys interact and behave?
He worked as a teacher
What did Golding admit to having a problematic relationship with?
Alcohol
Which novel influenced Golding’s decision to write the novel?
Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne
Why are the boys on the island?
Their plane crashed while they were being evacuated (an atomic bomb was dropped).
What does Piggy suffer from?
Asthma
What is the name of the choir boy who faints?
Simon
Who says “I ought to be chief.”?
Jack
Who suggests blowing the conch to find others?
Piggy
What does the conch symbolise?
Democracy / Civilisation
What are Ralph’s priorites? What are Jack’s?
Rescue, the fire, building shelters / hunting
In chapter 2, what animal is the beast described as?
A snake
Which littlun does the fire in chapter 2 kill?
The boy with mullberry coloured birthmark
What kind of imagery starting with ‘A’ does Golding use to describe Jack at the beginning of chapter 3?
animalistic
How do the boys start a fire in chapter 2?
By taking Piggy’s glasses to use as ‘burning glasses’
Who takes Piggy’s glasses in chapter 2?
Jack
Where does Simon go at the end of chapter 3?
He goes by himself Into an open space, a clearing, in the jungle.
What does Roger do at the start of chapter 4?
He kicks over the littluns sandcastles and throws stones (to miss) at Henry
What ‘liberated [Jack] from shame and self-consciousness’?
His face mask
Complete: “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill ___ ___.”
Spill her blood
What does Jack do to Piggy in chapter 4?
He punches him in the stomach, causing one lens of his glasses to break.
What does Simon give to Piggy in chapter 4?
His piece of meat.
Why are Ralph and Piggy so angry about the hunters letting the fire go out?
Because they saw a ship.
What ‘c’ does rescue symbolise? What ‘s’ does hunting symbolise?
Civilisation / Savagery
Ralph calls an assembly in chapter 5 ‘to put ___ ___.;
thing straight
What does Ralph say is the most important thing on the island?
The fire
Complete: “Bollocks to ___ ___”.
The rules (Jack)
Where does Percival say the beast comes from?
The sea
Who says: “Unless we get frightened of people.”?
Piggy
What does Simon believe about the beast?
That it’s inside of us: “maybe it’s only us.”
What does Jack try and take from Piggy in chapter 5?
The conch
Complete: “If there’s a beast, we’ll ___ ___ ___”.
hunt it down (Jack)
What do Jack and his hunters do after the assembly breaks up in chapter 5?
They chant and dance
Why doesn’t Ralph blow the conch at the end of chapter 5?
Because he thinks the others might not come and then there will be no more order on the island.
Sam and Eric think they see the beast - what do they actually see?
A dead parachutist
Complete: “We don’t need the ___ anymore.”
Conch
“The picture of a human at once heroic and sick” - who thinks this about what?
Simon about the beast
Why does Ralph get angry at the others at the end of chapter 6?
Because the Jack and his hunters want to make a fort and roll rocks (rather than look for the beast)
How does Ralph show signs of savagery and violence in chapter 7?
He joins with the hunt (hits the boar with a spear) and participates in a mock hunt/killing of Robert.
Complete: “The desire to squeeze and hurt was ___”
over-mastering
Who does Jack say they could use in a mock hunt where the ‘pig’ is actually killed?
A littlun
Who volunteers to go back to the beach on their own to be with Piggy and the littluns?
Simon
Complete: ‘Something like a great ___ was sitting asleep with its head between its knees.’
ape
a white blob’ describes what at the beginning of chapter 8?
The conch
Jack says ‘The beast is a ___’, what?
hunter
Why does Jack run into the jungle at the beginning of chapter 8?
Because no one voted to remove Ralph as chief
What is the significance of Jack saying, ‘I’m not going to be part of Ralph’s lot-‘?
It separates the boys into two opposing factions. / Jack has rejected democracy
What does Jack and his hunters killing the sow symbolise?
Lust for violence (irrespective of consequences) / An attack on vulnerablity (and love/care?)
A gift.’ Of what? For whom?
The sow’s head for the beast
Complete: ‘wedded to her in ____’
lust
Complete: ‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could ___ and ___’
hunt / kill
Complete: ‘I’m part of you. ___, ____, ____!’
close
What does Simon do at the start of chapter 9?
He frees the lines of parachutist from the rocks
Jack ‘sat there like an idol’, what does this mean?
Jack is revered and worshipped by his tribe
Why do the boys start dancing in chapter 9?
Because they are scared of the storm
Complete: ‘authority sat on his shoulder and chatterred in his ear like an ___’
ape
Complete: ‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Do ___ ___’
him in
Complete: ‘there were no words, and no movements but the tearing of ___ and ___’
teeth/claws
As Simon’s body drifts out to sea Golding uses a semantic field: ‘pearls’, ‘silver’, ‘marble’. What does this suggest about Simon?
His purity and invaluable worth (Christ-like figure)
In chapter 10, how does Piggy try to avoid responsibility/guilt for the death of Simon?
We was scared’ / ‘P’raps he was only pretending-‘ / ‘It was an accident’ / ‘He asked for it’
Complete: ‘I’m frightened of ___’ (Ralph, chapter 10)
us
Why does Jack tie and beat Wilfred?
He doesn’t say (‘irresponsible authority’)
In chapter 11, Jack takes responsibility for the death of Simon - true or false?
False. He says Simon was the beast in disguise and that boys cannot kill the beast (‘How could we - kill - it?’
What do Jack and his hunters steal? What does this symbolise?
Piggy’s glasses. Seizing power / loss of clarity, reason, civilisation
Complete: ‘not because your strong, but because what’s ___ is ___’
right
You’re Chief, Ralph. You remember everything.’ - who says this?
Piggy
Complete: ‘Which is better, law and ___, or ___ and breaking things up?’?
rescue / hunting
Complete: ‘Below him, Ralph was a shock of hair and Piggy a ___ of ___’
bag / fat
Complete: Piggy lifted the white, ___ shell’
magic
What happens to the conch in chapter 11?
exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
True or false: Jack takes responsibility for Piggy’s murder?
True: “I meant that!”
What is the pig’s skull compared to in chapter 12?
The conch
Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.’ - what is he planning to do?
Decapitate Ralph and put his head on the stick
What does Ralph compare himself to when he is being hunted?
A pig
What is ironic about the ending of the story?
It was the fire that destroyed the island that allowed the boys to be rescued/the boys are saved from savagery by a symbol war
What book is mentioned again at the end of the story?
Coral Island by R. M. Ballantyne
What happens to the island at the end of the story?
It burns down.
Who rescues the boys at the end of the story?
A Naval Officer
What did Ralph weep for at the end of the story?
the end of innocence / the darkness of man’s heart / the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy
