LOTF Quotes Flashcards
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Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife.
Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!”
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The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed… At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.
There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws. (9)
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The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever…
The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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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.
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“I ought to be chief,” said Jack with simple arrogance
“because I’m chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp.”
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“Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong—we hunt! If there’s a beast,
we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat—!”
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He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger…
the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.
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The fire’s the most important thing. Without the fire we can’t be rescued. I’d like to put on war-paint and be a savage.
But we must keep the fire burning. The fire’s the most important thing on the island, because, because-
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“…We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school…
I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking.”
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“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.
We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.”
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“We want meat.” (Jack) “Well, we haven’t got any yet. And we want shelters.” (Ralph)
… ‘They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.’ (3)
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Suddenly Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly. “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you any more! The conch is gone—
I’m chief!” Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs,
