Ralph Flashcards
Ralph - Chapter 1
‘You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil.’
Ralph - Chapter 2
‘Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir; on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before the evacuation; before him small children squatted in the grass.’
Ralph - Chapter 5
‘But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize thought in another.’
Ralph - Chapter 5 #2
‘The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.’
Ralph - Chapter 6
‘Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall.’
Ralph - Chapter 4
‘Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.’
Ralph - Chapter 7
‘The only trouble was that he would never be a good chess player.’
Ralph - Chapter 11
'’after all we aren’t savages really…’’
Ralph - Chapter 12
'’They’re not as bad as that. It was am accident.’’
Ralph - Chapter 12
‘Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up.’
Ralph - Chapter 12
‘What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch.’
Ralph -Chapter 12
‘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.’