Roger

Question 1

Roger quote - beginning

Answer 1

‘a slight, furtive boy… who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy’

Question 2

‘a slight, furtive boy… who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy’ analysis

Answer 2

• sets him apart from the other boys as he seems like he has something to hide -> all the other boys are euphoric to be on an island without adults while Roger seems preoccupied with something
• ‘inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy’ -> sadistic and unsettling personality -> potentially foreshadowing the dark future that lays ahead for him
• ‘slight’ and ‘furtive’ -> adjectives -> create tension, show that there’s something wrong with this child
• Golding may be showing his view on psychopaths and sociopaths in society -> even children can be born inheritantly evil

Question 3

Roger quote - middle

Answer 3

‘arm was conditioned by civilisation’

Question 4

‘arm was conditioned by civilisation’ analysis

Answer 4

• roger’s internal struggle between his innate bullying tendencies and the societal rules ingrained in him
• despite the absence of authority figures on the island, Roger is still influenced by their teachings

Question 5

Roger quotes - end

Answer 5

‘a sense of delirious abandonment’

‘some source of power began to pulse in Roger’s body’

Question 6

‘a sense of delirious abandonment’ analysis

Answer 6

Roger leans on the lever placed under the rock with ‘a sense…’
-> indicates he does so with enjoyment and derives immense pleasure out of others suffering

Question 7

‘some source of power began to pulse in Roger’s body’ analysis

Answer 7

highlights the beginning of Rogers descent into savagery
he enjoys violence