Ralph Essay

Question 1

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Answer 1

‘“Shut up,” said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. “Seems we ought to have a chief to decide things.”’

Question 2

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‘Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to - ought to die before we let the fire out?’

Question 3

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‘Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain. There was something he wanted to say; then the shutter had come down.’

Question 4

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‘Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society.’

Question 5

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‘an accident’

Question 6

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‘I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh god I want to go home.’

Question 7

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‘Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.’