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English Literature : Lord of the Flies > Piggy > Flashcards

Piggy Flashcards

1
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initially, piggy is presented…
(chapter 1)

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an outsider

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2
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finish the quote: ‘hung…

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…bumbling behind them’

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3
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finish the quote: ‘I got…

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…caught up’

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4
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finish the quote: ‘the boys were a…

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…closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside’

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initially, piggy is presented as…
(ch.1+2)

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fearful

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6
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finish the quote: ‘glanced over…

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…his shoulder’

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7
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finish the quote: ‘his face…

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…flushed, his mouth trembled’

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8
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finish the quote: ‘shrank to…

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…the other side of ralph’

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9
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finish the quote: ‘his voice…

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…lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination’

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10
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finish the quote: ‘he was intimidated by…

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…the uniformed superiority’

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11
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finish the quote: ‘nobody knows…

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…where we are’

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12
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finish the quote: ‘all by…

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…myself’

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13
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initially, piggy is presented as…
(ch.2)

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a democratic figure

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14
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finish the quote: ‘I got the…

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…conch’

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15
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finish the quote: ‘you let me…

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…speak’

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16
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finish the quote: ‘tucked the shell…

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….under his arm’

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17
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initially, piggy is presented…
(ch.1+2)

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a parental and authoritative figure

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18
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finish the quote: ‘piggy leaned…

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…down to him’

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19
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finish the quote: ‘listening and…

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…interpreting’

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20
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finish the quote: ‘acting like…

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…a crowd of kids’

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21
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finish the quote: ‘let him have…

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…the conch’

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22
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finish the quote: ‘watched him…

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….in disgust’

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23
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finish the quote: ‘piggy knelt…

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…by him’

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24
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finish the quote: ‘you goes…

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…howling and screaming’

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25
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finish the quote: ‘you got your…

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…small fire alright’

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26
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initially, piggy is presented…
(ch.1)

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through appearance

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27
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finish the quote: ‘the fat..

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…boy’

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28
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finish the quote: ‘the naked crooks…

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…of his knees were plump’

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29
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finish the quote: ‘thick…

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…spectacles’

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30
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finish the quote: ‘altered the…

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…pale contours of his face’

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31
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initially, piggy is presented…
(ch.4)

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as the centre of derision on the island

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32
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finish the quote: ‘you would, would…

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…you? Fatty!’

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33
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finish the quote: ‘jack mimicked…

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…the whine and scramble’

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34
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finish the quote: ‘the laughter rose…

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…to a gale of hysteria’

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35
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throughout the course of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.5+ch.8)

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as intellectual, mature and clever

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36
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finish the quote: ‘I can’t think. …

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…Not like piggy.’

37
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finish the quote: ‘but piggy..

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…for all his ludicrous body, had brains’

38
Q

finish the quote: ‘I don’t believe in…

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…no ghosts - ever!’

39
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finish the quote: ‘cos things wouldn’t…

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…make sense. houses an’ streets, an’ - TV - they wouldn’t work’

40
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finish the quote: ‘only piggy could have…

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…the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain’

41
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throughout the course of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.7+8)

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as weak and timid

42
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finish the quote: ‘he imagined piggy by himself…

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…huddled in a shelter that was silent except for the sounds of nightmare’

43
Q

finish the quote: ‘go up and see…

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…said jack contemptuously, and good riddance’

44
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finish the quote: ‘are you sure?…

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…really sure, i mean?’

45
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finish the quote: ‘d’you think we’re safe…

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…down here?

46
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throughout the novel, piggy is presented
(ch.8)

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as happy and free, not under threat

47
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finish the quote: ‘for the…

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…first time on the island’

48
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start the quote: …went on speaking’

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‘piggy…

49
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throughout the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.8)

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as the only one who hasn’t been affected by the island and still completely remembers civilisation

50
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finish the quotation: ‘piggy whispered…

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…urgently. “rescue.”

51
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.9)

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as altruistic

52
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finish the quote: ‘p’raps we ought..

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…to go too’

53
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finish the quote: ‘i don’t..

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…like them clouds’

54
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finish the quote: ‘i mean…

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…to make sure nothing happens’

55
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start the quote: ..going to be trouble’

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‘come away. there’s…

56
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.9)

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.through his brief descent into savagery

57
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finish the quote: ‘found themselves..

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…eager to take place in this demented but partly secure society’

58
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented..
(ch.10)

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through his reaction regarding their participation in simon’s murder

59
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finish the quote: ‘you..

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…stop it!’

60
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finish the quote: ‘bloody..

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…dance’

61
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finish the quote: ‘lightning and…

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…thunder and rain’

62
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finish the quote: ‘we was..

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..scared!’

63
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finish the quote: ‘it wasn’t what..

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…you said’

64
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finish the quote: ‘p’raps…

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…he was only pretending’

65
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finish the quote: ‘it was..

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…an accident’

66
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finish the quote: ‘coming in the dark..

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…he hadn’t no business crawling like that out of the dark’’

67
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‘finish the quote: ‘he was..

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…batty. he asked for it’

68
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finish the quote: ‘we was on the outside. we…

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…never done nothing, we never seen nothing’

69
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.10+11)

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through his understanding of the effect of savagery on the boys and his desperate attempts to hold onto civilisation

70
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finish the quote: ‘how else..

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…are we going to be rescued?’

71
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finish the quote: ‘we’ve got…

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…to get out of this’

72
Q

finish the quote: ‘if we don’t get..

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…home, soon we’ll be barmy’

73
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finish the quote: ‘you haven’t…

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…got the conch!’

74
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finish the quote: ‘because what’s..

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…right’s right’

75
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.10+11)

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as weak and vulnerable and reliant on civilisation to survive

76
Q

finish the quote: ‘piggy kept still for a moment…

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…then he had his asthma’

77
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finish the quote: ‘from his left hand…

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…dangled piggy’s broken glasses’

78
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‘from his left hand dangled piggy’s broken glasses’

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  • makes piggy physically and morally blind, stripping him of his scientific/logical understanding - the last pieces left of society
  • also removes his limited foresight that was already blinding him from the truth
79
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finish the quote: ‘let me…

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…hold on to you’

80
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finish the quote: ‘led…

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…like a dog’

81
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented..
(ch.11)

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through his interaction with jack’s tribe and the savages at castle rock before his death

82
Q

finish the quote: ‘i got..

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…the conch’

83
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finish the quote: ‘which is better…

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…to be a pack of indians like you are, or to be sensible like ralph is?…
…to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill’

84
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throughout the end of the novel, piggy is presented…
(ch.11)

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through his death

85
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finish the quote: ‘the conch exploded…

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…into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

86
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‘the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’

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  • shattered along with piggy
  • piggy = civilisation, law and order
  • ultimate end of civilisation and democracy
87
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finally. piggy is presented…
(ch.12)

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through the viewpoint of ralph

88
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finish the quote: ‘and the fall through the air of…

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…a true, wise friend called piggy’

English Literature : Lord of the Flies (31 decks)

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