Piggy

Question 1

Piggy quotes from Chapter 1?

Answer 1

• very fat
• hardly move
• ‘shut up, fatty’
  -‘he’s not fatty … his real names piggy!’
  -‘better piggy than fatty’

Question 2

‘How can you expect to be….’ (Piggy)

Answer 2

‘Rescued if you don’t put first things first?’ (Chapter 2)

Question 3

‘Like a …’. (Piggy)

Answer 3

‘Pack of kids!’ (Chapter 2)

Question 4

‘There isn’t …’ (piggy)

Answer 4

‘No beast’ (chapter 4)

Question 5

‘What are we?’ Piggy

Answer 5

‘Humans?Or animals?Or savages?’ (Chapter 5)

Question 6

‘Shut up..’

Answer 6

‘Fatty’ Chapter 1

Question 7

‘They…’. Piggy

Answer 7

‘Blinded me’ (chapter 11)

Question 8

“Ralph! Don’t …’

Answer 8

“Leave me!” (Chapter 11)

Question 9

‘Piggy’s arms and legs…’

Answer 9

‘Twitched a bit’ (compared to a pig - chapter 11)

Question 10

Key piggy quotes from chapter 5?

Answer 10

‘Make smoke up there - or die’
‘I don’t believe in no ghosts!’
‘What are we? Humans? Or savages? Or animals?’

Question 11

Piggy quotes from chapter 11?

Answer 11

‘To have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?’
‘Glancing blow’
‘Like a pigs after it’s been killed’

Question 12

To ahve rules and …. Or to….?

Answer 12

Agree
Hunt and kill

Question 13

Make … up there or ….

Answer 13

Smoke
Die

Question 14

How is Piggy presented in the first chapter?

Answer 14

Working class and doesn’t go to public school - he is an outsider
Speaks in dialect/ non standard English

Question 15

How do the other boys view piggy?

Answer 15

Socially inferior

Question 16

What is the significance of the opening only being of Jack and Piggy?

Answer 16

It gives the reader long enough to make a judgement
The adjectives used to describe them make them stand out in stark contrast

Question 17

‘…. By this ….. …..’

Answer 17

Intimidated
Uniformed
Superiority
Chapter 1

Question 18

‘G…. W….’

Answer 18

Greasy
Windbreaker
Chapter 1

Question 19

What is the significance of the windbreaker piggy wears in chapter 1?

Answer 19

He is an outsider - wearing a coat in hot weather
He is the only boy not wearing uniform - differentiates him from the others
‘Greasy’ sidelines him from the offset - dehumanises him

Question 20

‘…, caught and …. By …’

Answer 20

Plump
Scratched
Thorns
Chapter 1

Question 21

What is the significance of piggy being stuck in the thorns in chapter 1?

Answer 21

Foreshadows him as a martyr/ sacrificial victim
Shows how he is vulnerable

Question 22

What does the quote ‘vunerably’ show?

Answer 22

He has a heightened sense of anxiety

Question 23

‘What’s … … going to …’

Answer 23

Grown ups
Think
Chapter 5

Question 24

‘We could make a …’

Answer 24

Sundial
Chapter 4

Question 25

‘I expect we will _______ … we ought to have a ….’

Answer 25

Want to know their names Meeting Chapter 1

Question 26

‘What …. Had been shown was … to …’

Answer 26

Intelligence Traceable Piggy Chapter 1 Omniscient narrator