LOTF Quotes

Question 1

Piggy’s death

Answer 1

‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments’

‘Like a pig after it’s been killed’

‘Incantation of hatred’

Question 2

Jack failing to kill the pig (Chapter 1)

Answer 2

‘The unbearable blood’
‘Jack’s face was white under the freckles’
‘There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream.’

Question 3

Ralph’s election (Chapter 1)

Answer 3

‘said Jack with simple arrogance’
‘Let’s have a vote’
‘But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out’

Question 4

Simon’s death (Chapter 9)

Answer 4

‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”

“The tearing of teeth and claws”

“The circle became a horseshoe”

Question 5

The mock execution (Chapter 7)

Answer 5

‘Jack shouted. Make a ring!’

‘The desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering’

Question 6

Roger throwing stones (Chapter 4)

Answer 6

‘Threw it to miss’

‘taboo of the old life’

‘arm was conditioned by civilization’

Question 7

Finding/Using the conch (Chapter 1)

Answer 7

‘His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch’

‘Piggy was shouting something, his face pleased’

Question 8

Parachutist (Chapter 9)

Answer 8

‘The beast was harmless and horrible’

‘Simon knelt on all fours and was sick till his stomach was empty’

‘The flies had found the figure too’

Question 9

Navy Officer (Chapter 12)

Answer 9

‘He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform’

‘Fun and games’

‘ralph answered shyly. “Hullo” ‘

Question 10

Building of the shelters (Chapter 3)

Answer 10

‘You want to hunt!’

‘They faced each other’

‘Baffled, in love and hate’

Question 11

Simon’s talk with the Lord of the Flies (Chapter 8)

Answer 11

‘The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw’

‘His eyes could not break away and the Lord of Flies hung in space before him’

‘Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill’

Question 12

Signal Fire (Chapter 2)

Answer 12

‘The boys were falling still and silent’

‘The flames, as though they were a kind of wildlife’

Question 13

Setting fire to island (Chapter 12)

Answer 13

‘Screaming, snarling, Bloody’

‘They were all running, all crying out madly’

‘All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together’

Question 14

Loss of innocence

Answer 14

‘The boys were falling still and silent’

‘His eyes could not break away’

‘Liberated shame and self-consciousness’

Question 15

Democracy

Answer 15

‘Let’s have a vote’

‘The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

‘The harsh note of the conch’

Question 16

Jack

Answer 16

‘Jack’s face was white under the freckles’

“Jack shouted. ‘Make a ring!’ “

Question 17

Civilization

Answer 17

‘A row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform’

‘arm was conditioned by civilization’

Question 18

The conch ___________ _________ _________

Answer 18

The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.

Question 19

Like a _____ _____ ____ been killed

Answer 19

Like a pig’s after it has been killed.

Question 20

‘The body of Piggy was _____’

Answer 20

The body of Piggy was gone.

Question 21

This time the silence was _______

Answer 21

This time the silence was complete.

Question 22

Jack bounded out from the tribe and began _______ ______

Answer 22

Jack bounded out from the tribe an began screaming wildly

Question 23

‘Visciously, with full ______

Answer 23

Visciously, with full intention

Question 24

‘He obeyed an instinct that he did not know ______’

Answer 24

he possessed

Question 25

‘Then he was crashing through foliage and small broughs and was _______’

Answer 25

hidden by the forest

Question 26

Quote for the parallel of the twins and J&R

Answer 26

‘Now the twins, with unsuspected intelligence’

Question 27

‘Sharing this _____’ J &R

Answer 27

Sharing this burden

Question 28

Quote for strange friendship between J&R

Answer 28

‘Strange invisible light of friendship’

Question 29

‘Not for the ______ ____ us’ J&R

Answer 29

Not for the two of us

Question 30

‘Laughing with _________ pleasure’ J&R

Answer 30

‘Laughing with triumphant pleasure’

Question 31

‘Joined in ____ ____ _____’ J&R

Answer 31

Joined in effort by the burden

Question 32

‘____ blushed too’ J&R

Answer 32

Jack blushed too

Question 33

‘Now the ___ ______ was open’ J&R

Answer 33

Now the absurd situation was open

Question 34

‘Last confession of _________’ J&R

Answer 34

Last confession of incompetence

Question 35

Quote for loss of innocence at the very end

Answer 35

‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence’

Question 36

Quote for Simon’s realisation of the beast

Answer 36

‘Maybe it’s only us’

‘He became inarticulate to express mankind’s essential illness’

Question 37

Quote for transition into savagery chapter 11

Answer 37

They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.

Question 38

Quote for Jack wanting to have power over ralph

Answer 38

-Bollocks to the rules!
-‘I’m not going to be a part of Ralph’s lot’

Question 39

Quote for Jack using the beast to control

Answer 39

-My hunters will protect you from the beast. Will you join my tribe?

-‘If there’s a beast we’ll hunt it down.

-‘No! How could we kill it?’

Question 40

Quote for madness at the end

Answer 40

‘They were all running, all crying out madly’