Ralph quotes Flashcards
“gnaws at his meat…
like a wolf”
“Ralph picked up his stick…
and prepared for battle”
“I’m chief….
I’ll go. Don’t argue.”
“the choir belongs…
to you of course”
“I’m frightened…
of us”
“That was Simon…
that was murder”
“There aren’t any grownups…
we’ll have to look after ourselves”
“I want to go home…
Oh god, I want to go home\2
“Things are breaking up…
I don’t understand why”
“Don’t you want to be rescued…
all you talk about is pig, pig, pig!”
“The fire’s the most…
important thing. Without the fire, we can’t be rescued”
“Which is better…
law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?”
“We’ll have to have hands…
up, like at school”
“seems to me…
we ought to have a chief to decide things”
“I’d like to put on war paint…
and become a savage. But we must keep the fire burning”
“but I tell you…`
that smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one.”
“the desire to squeeze…
and hurt was overmastering”
“are we savages…
or what?”
