Themes

Question 1

Innocence 1

Answer 1

“He patted the palm trunk softly; and forced at last to believe in the reality of the island, laughed delightedly again and stood on his head” Ch. 1

Question 2

Innocence 2

Answer 2

“Daddy said they haven’t found all the animals in the sea yet.” Ch. 5

Question 3

Innocence 3

Answer 3

“The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye. ‘ I’m not going to play any longer, not with you” Ch. 8

Question 4

Innocence 4

Answer 4

“…ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels.” Ch. 8

Question 5

Innocence 5

Answer 5

“What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?” Ch. 10
“Might it not be possible to walk boldly into the fort, say – ‘I’ve got pax’ laugh lightly and sleep amongst the others” Ch. 12

Question 6

Innocence 6

Answer 6

“‘They’re not as bad as that. It was an accident.’” Chapter 12

Question 7

Innocence 7

Answer 7

“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart” Ch. 12

Question 8

Evil 1

Answer 8

“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” Ch. 7

Question 9

Evil 2

Answer 9

“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”

Ch. 9

Question 10

Savagery 1

Answer 10

“‘Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!’” Ch. 7

Question 11

Savagery 2

Answer 11

“There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.”

Question 12

Savagery 3

Answer 12

“‘This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.’” Ch. 8

Question 13

Savagery 4

Answer 13

“‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’” Ch. 9

Question 14

Savagery 5

Answer 14

“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”

Ch. 9

Question 15

Savagery 6

Answer 15

“Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.” Ch. 11

Question 16

Savagery 7

Answer 16

“Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?” Ch. 11

Question 17

Civilisation 1

Answer 17

Ralph gains organizes group; “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.” Ch.1

Question 18

Civilisation 2

Answer 18

“There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common-sense.”

Question 19

Civilisation 3

Answer 19

“Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law” Ch. 4

Question 20

Civilisation 4

Answer 20

“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.” Ch. 5

Question 21

Civilisation 5

Answer 21

“What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?” Ch. 10

Question 22

Civilisation 6

Answer 22

“Which is better–to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?” Ch. 11

Question 23

Civilisation 7

Answer 23

“‘I should have thought that a pack of British boys… would have been able to put up a better show than that.’” Chapter 12

Question 24

Violence 1

Answer 24

“‘Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!’” Ch. 7

Question 25

Violence 2

Answer 25

“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” Ch. 7

Question 26

Violence 3

Answer 26

“‘Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!’” Ch. 9

Question 27

Violence 4

Answer 27

“They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.” Ch. 9

Question 28

Violence 5

Answer 28

“At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”

Ch. 9

Question 29

Violence 6

Answer 29

“In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun.”

Chapter 12