LOTF Symbols

Question 1

Conch
(power)

Answer 1

‘They obey the summons of the conch’

Question 2

Conch
(loss of civilisation)

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Fire
(corrupting nature of savagery)

Answer 3

‘The separate noises of the fire merged into a drumroll that seemed to shake the mountain.’

Question 4

Beast
(mankind’s flaw)

Answer 4

‘Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us’

Question 5

Beast
(duality of man)

Answer 5

‘The picture of a human at once heroic and sick’

Question 6

Setting
(cyclic scene- nature of mankind)

Answer 6

‘Birds lifted, crying out of the tree-tops as on that first morning’

Question 7

Setting
(boys damage to nature)

Answer 7

‘a gash visible in the trees’

Question 8

Appearance
(devolution)

Answer 8

‘Bent double’
‘dog like’

Question 9

Appearance
(loss of civilisation)

Answer 9

“A Savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts”

Question 10

Nature
(mans influence)

Answer 10

‘A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb’

Question 11

Nature
(simons experience)

Answer 11

‘the scent of ripeness and the booming of a million bees’