Quotes! Flashcards
Skull like coconuts
Similie
Momento moray ( reminder of death )
Skull - death and decay
Contrasts with “miraculous throbbing stars in the sky”
This is a good island
Good vs evil
Foreshadows Ralph’s failing as a leader as it was a “good island” at the start but the conditions of the island worsened as the novel progressed
Scratched by thorns
Biblical imagery
Jesus - crown of thorns
Thorns - sins, sorrow, hardship
Scratched - suggests they will merely graze the troubles and hardships of adult life / life by themselves
Perhaps there aren’t any grownups anywhere
Boys become microcosm for adult world
Golding saying we never really grow up, we never become wholly good
Criticising adults
Until they fetch us
Jack about adults
Hope
Sense of entitlement
there was the fathom-wide grin of the skull
Grin - devilish
Skull - momento moray
Hurt and crushed
Piggy feels it because Ralph betrays his trust in a heartbeat
Foreboading because thats how he does ( he gets crushed )
Circular structure
He’s not fatty, his real names piggy
Ralph wants the last laugh / wants the attention
Doesn’t think twice about breaking Piggy’s trust
Closed circuit of sympathy in which Piggy is excluded
Daddy’s ship
Daddy - infantilises Ralph ( makes him look childish )
Shows lack of maturity at the begining
Can be contrasted with the word “Father” later on which shows his buildens Roman and how he’s growing and maturing
Next time there will be no mercy
Goldings preparing us for the change in Jack and the rest of the boys
Ends first chapter in unsavoury tone
Ends second chapter in a distressing way
End of the opening chapters in a perturbing way so that it’s clear to the reader that the very end of the novel will not have a happy ending
An awesome stranger
Jack says this after he’s painted himself in face paint
Awesome - god like power ( hubristic )
Stranger - suggests how liberating face paint is and how he can hide behind a masked persona / be someone totally different
