lotf quotes Flashcards
“for a moment the boys were a _____________ with ______________”
- chapters 1-6
- closed circuit of sympathy
- piggy on the outside
“**something ______ was ____________ ** … the darkness was not all shadow but __________”
- chapters 1-6
- about choir being introduced
- dark
- fumbling along
- mostly clothing
“they knew very well why he hadn’t [killed the pig]: because of the ________ of the ___ __________ and _________ into __________; because of the ** _________ blood**”
- chapters 1-6
- enormity
- knife descending
- cutting
- living flesh
- unbearable
what are the key quotes for chapter 1?
“something dark was fumbling along… the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing” (choir introduced)
“for a moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with piggy on the outside”
“they knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood.”
what are some key quotes for chapter 2?
“with the martyred expression of a parent” (piggy)
”you’re acting like a crowd of kids.”
jack: “i agree w ralph. we’ve got to have rules and obey them. after all, we’re not savages. were english and the english are best at everything. so we’ve got to do the right things.”
what are some key quotes for chapter 3?
jack: “became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees”
jack: “he tried to convey the compulsion to track down & kill that was swallowing him up
jack: “if you’re hunting sometimes… you can feel as if you’re not hunting, but - being hunted, as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle.”
jack & ralph: “they walked along, **two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate”
what are some key quotes for chapter 4?
about roger: “here, invisible yet strong was the taboo of the old life. round the squatting child was the protection of parents & school & policemen & the law. roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”
jacks mask: “the mask was a thing on its own, behind which jack hid liberated from shame and self consciousness.”
what are some key quotes from chapter 5?
jack: “bollocks to the rules!”
ralph’s thoughts: “if faces were different when lit from above or below - what was a face? what was anything?”
ralph: ”things are breaking up. i don’t understand why. we began well, we were happy. and then - … then people started getting frightened.”
piggy: “i know there isn’t no beast - not with claws and all that, i mean - but i know there isn’t no fear either… unless- … unless we get frightened of people.”
simon on beast: “‘what i mean is… maybe it’s only us… what’s the dirtiest thing there is?’ … simon became inarticulate in his efforts to express mankind’s essential illness.”
”the world, that understandable & lawful world, was slipping away. once there was this and that; and now- and the ship had gone.”
ralph: “if only they could send us something grown-up… a sign or something”
what are some key quotes for chapter 6?
“the bright morning was full of threats and the circle began to change. it faced out, rather than in & the spears of sharpened wood were like a fence. jack called them back to the centre.”
“however simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”
what are some key quotes for chapter 7?
“ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. the desire to squeeze & hurt was over-mastering.”
about jack: “a stain in the darkness, a stain that was jack, detached itself and began to draw away.”
what are some key quotes for chapter 8?
jack on the beast: “the beast is a hunter… we couldn’t kill it.”
jack: ”im not going to play any longer. not with you.”
on the sow: “the hunters followed wedded to her in lust … they were heavy and fulfilled upon her.”
LOTF: “the half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. they assured simon that everything was a bad business.”
“there isn’t anyone to help you. only me. and im the beast… fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill! … you knew, didn’t you? i’m part of you?”
what are some key quotes for chapter 9?
the parachutist: “poor broken thing that sat stinking by his side. the beast was harmless and horrible.”
during simon’s death: “piggy & ralph, under the threat of the sky … were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.”
“a thing was crawling out of the forest. it came darkly, uncertainly… the beast stumbled into the horseshoe… it was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on a hill… there were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
what are some key quotes from chapter 10?
piggy: “it was dark. there was that- that bloody dance. there was lightning and thunder and rain. we was scared!”
what are some key quotes for chapter 11?
piggy on his glasses: “not because you’re strong, but because what’s right’s right.”
”the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.”
”you’re acting like a crowd of kids.”
ralph: ”which is better - to have rules & agree, or to hunt & kill?”
ralph: “he… gazed at the green & black mask before him, trying to remember what jack looked like.”
ralph’s thoughts: “after all we aren’t savages really and being rescued isn’t a game.”
what are some key quotes for chapter 12?
“then the fatal unreasoning knowledge came to him… the painted savages would go further & further.”
”ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called piggy.”
