LORD OF THE FLIES READING NOTES
CH. 1
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“He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a
vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch- like cry” (7). This quote
develops an intense and serious mood.
“There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil” (11). This
description of Ralph shows his good intentions and natural good nature of him
“The heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight” (15) The heat
symbolizes the lack of faith and this is quote shows the lack of faith that Piggy is
starting to have
“The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything: but the vivid
phantoms of his daydream still interposed between him and piggy” (16). Description
of the powerful conch and Ralph’s day dreaming.
“Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along… Then
the creature stepped from the mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the
darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing” (20) This description is of Jack and
the choir describing their arrival as one of a beast or creature. This foreshadows
Jacks transformation from an innocent choir boy into a heartless savage. This also
foreshadows the darkness and beastie is them and not a made up creature or
“Snake-thing.”
“We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear
us” (17). Piggy is the one who comes up with the idea to gather everyone with the
conch—shows how Piggy likes structure and wants everyone gathered so they can
be organized and effective.
“He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the offhand authority in
Merridew’s voice. He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his
glasses” (22). Jack’s sudden authority is already challenging that of Ralph’s and the
conch, this makes Piggy uncomfortable and he cleans his glasses. Piggy wipes his
glasses as if he tries to wipe away his problems or the sins of the boys.
“Why should I be Jack? I’m Merridew” (22). Jack has authority and insists on being
called Merridew.
“What intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious
leader was Jack” (24). Ralph is voted instead of Piggy or Jack, showing that at first
the boys were more appealed to reason and they were civilized.
“This was the voice of someone who knew his own mind” (22). Ralph’s thinking of
Jack when he insists to be called Merridew.
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“Ralph looking with more understanding at Piggy saw that he was hurt and crushed.
He hovered between two courses of apology or further insult.” Instead of just
ignoring Piggy or making a rushed insult, he thinks first and uses reason to come to a
conclusion. Jack works on impulses and does not think, where as Ralph uses his
sense and reasoning before he acts.
“They knew very well why he hadn’t: because of the enormity of the knife
descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood” (34). The
reason why Jack couldn’t kill the pig.
“He snatched his knife our of the sheath and slammed it into a tree trunk. Next time
there would be no mercy” (34). Jack becoming increasingly violent, letting his pride
get in the way.
“With dreary obedience the choir raised their hands” (24). The choir follows and
listens to Jack drearily at first. This could be a motif because it is repeated often in
the book.
“The freckles on Jack’s face disappeared under a blush of mortification” (24). Jack
lost the vote and is very embarrassed that he did, his pride is also very hurt. Jack
feels the need to be noticed and have glory, and he has so much pride that he has to
be the best, and on top, Ralph cannot be better than him.
“He was a skinny, vivid little boy with a glance coming up from under a hut of
straight hair that hung down, black and coarse” (25). This is the direct
characterization of Simon.
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CH. 2
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“Nobody knows where we are…Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and
perhaps not. But they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there” (37). Piggy
is very smart and intellectual, he is the only one who seems to know what happened
when they crashed and be sensible about it.
“He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted
out by a mulberry-colored birthmark…He was muttering and about to cry” (38).
Description of the small and weak boy with the mulberry mark that eventually
disappears.
“Now he says it was a beastie…He says the beastie came In the dark…and went away
again an’ came back and wanted to eat him—(39). The Mulberry marked boy is
telling Piggy about the beastie that he sees- telling him that he sees it in the dark
and that it wants to eat him.
“He says in the morning it ran into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in
the branches” (40). Vivid description of the creepers.
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“Ralph was annoyed and, for the moment, defeated. He felt himself facing
something ungraspable” (40). Ralph is sad about being defeated like Jack was, but it
isn’t because of his pride, but because he doesn’t want the littluns and boys to fear
about something that does not exist.
“Ralph’s right of course. There isn’t a snake-thing. But if there was snake we’d hunt
it and kill it. We’re going to hunt pigs and get meat for everybody. And we’ll look for
the snake too—“ (40). The is Jacks political strategy, putting fear into the boys and
offering protection and food so they will crave and want the security and comfort
offered and join him into savagery.
“Like kids... Acting like a crowd of kids!” (42). Piggy makes this remark as everyone is
following Jack to the top of the mountain to make a fire. Piggy values order,
structure and intelligence, he clings onto authority and order (the conch) and is put
off when everyone acts crazed and “like kids.”
“We’ll be responsible for keeping the fire going—“ This generosity brought a spatter
of applause from the boys, so that Jack grinned at them” (47). Jack offers to keep the
fire going, but not for the right reasons, he needs attention and status. He wants
them to be aware of what he is doing for them.
“Roger took the conch and looked round at them gloomily. “I’ve been watching the
sea. There hasn’t been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we’ll never be rescued.” Later in
the book we find out how dark and evil Roger really is but we can see here, that he
never was a nice guy. Roger is pessimistic and gloomy and his darkness magnifies
throughout the novel as he degenerates into a savage.
“I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not
savages. We’re English; and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do
the right things” (47). Jack is speaking and tells the boys that he agrees with Ralph
and they need rules so they do not become savage. This is ironic, because Jack is one
of the first boys who ends up breaking the rules and he is the first one who
degenerates into an evil savage. The reason of him turning into a savage may in part
be because of his pride, which is evident in his comment of being English. Jack’s
mood is imperialistic, believing that Britain and himself are better than everyone
else.
“The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went
swinging and flaring along the whole row of them. Beneath the capering boys a
quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame. The separate
noises of the fire merged into a drum-roll that seemed to shake the mountain” (49).
Golding creates beautiful imagery of the fire that is let loose. He uses the specific
word “Savage” to describe the fire and this is on purpose. The rapid uncontrolled fire
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is foreshadowing of the savagery and evil that will destroy the boys and wreck their
civilization.
“Startled, Ralph realized that the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the
beginnings of awe at the power set free below them. The knowledge and awe mad
him savage” (44)
“How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper”
(50). Piggy teaching the boys with his intellect that they need to make shelter before
going up the mountain and making a fire.
“That little ‘un that had a mark on his—face—where is—he now? I tell you I don’t
see him” (51). The boy with the mark on his face is gone, assuming the fire, just like
how other boys are killed by Jack’s savagery, killed him.
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CH. 3
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“Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in
the foliage, passed them back down to the endless outstretched hands.” (61). Simon is
kind and innocent- he can be paralleled to the savior because he was kind to everyone
and gave up his life to helping and serving others, like Simon, as well as being
persecuted.
“He squatted down, parted the leaves and looked out into the clearing. Nothing moved
but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air” (62). Simon
is connected to nature and finds peace in it, this is his haven where he has his seizures.
“The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and
light” (61). This is a description of the kind and generous nature that Simon escapes to,
avoiding Jack and Ralph’s conflict and escaping to have his seizure.
“People don’t help much,” He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you
thought they were” (59). Piggy says this to Ralph when they are talking together, this
foreshadows change of someone trusted into someone you don’t recognize like Jack.
Jack isn’t quite who you thought he was at the end of the book.
“They were bright blue, eyes that in this frustration seemed bolting and nearly mad”
(52). Jack is slowly becoming more obsessed with the pigs and this is leading him to
becoming more violent and savage.
“Uncommunicative forest” (53). Something mysterious about the forest.
“The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat” (53).
“Harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages” (53). Something about human
nature that has been constant forever.
“He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree… Masses of creepers that lay
across the trail” (53). Jack hunting the pigs, passing through shadows of darkness and
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masses of creepers, which at this time do not seem to stop him. Jack is becoming less
fearful.
“From the pig-run came the quick, hard patter of hoofs, a castanet sound, seductive,
maddening” (53). Killing is seductive and creates bloodlust.
“All day I’ve been working with Simon…. No one else…They’re off bathing, or eating, or
playing” (55). Jack is starting to break the rules and become more careless, he does not
care about helping Ralph but more about killing the pigs. Simon and Ralph are trying to
make huts for the boys to sleep in and they are the only ones caring about it and doing
it for them.
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”
(55). Jack is turning into a savage, becoming increasingly obsessed and lacking skills of
communication and expression.
“As if…The beastie, the beastie or the snake thing, was real. Remember?” (56) Simon is
not ashamed to say or talk about the beastie but Ralph and Jack are. Simon is not scared
because he is beginning to understand that the beastie is the darkness in all of the boys,
not a made up creature.
“Remembering the glamour of the first day” (57) Ralph is day dreaming and returning
to an idealistic time.
“There’s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as If you’re not hunting,
but being hunted; as if something’s behind you all the time in the jungle” (57). Jack is
explaining how he feels, perhaps he is being haunted and hunted by his evil and dark
potential that is taunting him to indulge in it and kill.
“Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was” (58). Jack
is changing and becoming less civilized each day as he forgets what rescue is.
“He’s queer, He’s funny” (59). Ralph saying about Simon-- Simon goes off by himself
and is quiet/ independent. Simon can be related to a visionary that is rejected like in,
“The allegory of the cave”
“They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling unable to communicate”
(60). Shows how much they are changing and growing apart through the high stress they
have endured on the island.
“And the creepers shivered throughout their lengths when he bumped them…The
creepers dropped their ropes like the rigging of foundered ships” (61) man made related
to nature.
“Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and
strange as the bottom of the sea.” –pg 62
CH. 4
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“As a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and
therefore forgotten” (62).
“He was not noticeably darker than when he had dropped in, but the shock of black
hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made
what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding” (66).
Roger’s darkness and inner evil is described by Goldings use of direct characterization
and because of this sort of hints at the evil capability of this quiet and disturbed boy.
“When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher and soon the
shelters were full of restlessness, under the remote stars” (64)
“As though the impending sun’s height gave it momentum—became a blow that they
ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping” (63) Shows how
the heat or lack of faith is getting to them and changing them.
“They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort” (64). The
littluns are not be looked after well by the bigguns and as a result have to stay together,
“They obeyed the summons of the conch, partly because Ralph blew it, and he was big
enough to be a link with the adult world of authority” (64). Ralph’s link to reasoning and
authority.
“He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger. He split
the water and leapt to his feet, laughing excitedly… He began to dance and his laughter
became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing on its
own, behind which Jack hid, liberated for shame and self consciousness” (69). The dazzle
paint hides Jack from shame and lets him become himself—a savage. Jack giggles at the
pleasure of being able to hide and blend in but also let his true self come out.
“Bill started up laughing; then suddenly he fell silent and blundered away through the
bushes” (69). Bill is Jacks friend and instead of commenting on Jack’s evil or telling Jack
he has gone crazy like a friend like Ralph would, he encourages him with a laugh. Jacks
friends are a contributing factor of why Jack becomes insane and a savage.
“Jack was standing under a tree about ten yards away. When Roger opened his eyes and
saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed
nothing” (68). Jack is becoming increasingly more insane as well as Roger, and Jack does
not notice it because he is completely obsessed, Roger is disturbed and aware.
“I cut the pig’s throat” Said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it” (75). Jack kills
the pigs in part because of his pride. He is becoming more and more savage, but is also a
little insecure and in emotional turmoil.
“There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was
the world of longing and baffled common-sense. Jack transferred the knife to his left
hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair” (77).
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Shows the extreme differences that have grown between Jack and Ralph and how the
islands high stress situations have changed them.
“He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach” (77).
Jack is becoming more uncivilized and can finally hit Piggy and embrace his violence, he
has finally changed and morphed enough mentally and emotionally to feel good when
hitting Piggy.
“I painted my face—I stole up. Now you eat—all of you—and I—“ (81). Jack is proud of
the kill and he needs everyone to acknowledge by eating it.
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in” (82). The boys rhythmic chant after the pig
hunt is creepy and just shows how seriously bad things are getting and is evidence of
their degeneration into savagery.
CH.5
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“What I mean is … maybe it’s only us” (97) Simon realized the boys potential for evil and
that “the beastie” is all of them.
“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to
express them. Frowning, he tried again” (83). Ralph day dreams often and is finding it
harder and harder to explain himself and keep focused.
“Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values. Piggy could think. He could go
step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his
ludicrous body had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now and could recognize
thought in another” (85). Ralph is finding it easier to follow others thoughts instead of
his own and is starting to appreciate Piggy’s great intellect and thinking.
“Because we can’t have proper assemblies if you don’t stick to the rules” (98).
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away” (99) Civilization is
slipping away from the boys.
“What are we? Humans? Or animals?? Or savages? What’s grown-ups going to think?
Going off- hunting pigs- letting fires out- and now!” (99). Piggy says this showing again
how highly he thinks of adults and their structure, which is Ironic because the adults are
at war with each other and are not acting with structure and order, but chaos and
violence.
“Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got” (99). Ralph is becoming like Piggy in
that he is starting to depend on rules and order.
“Grown-ups know things…they ain’t afraid of the dark. They’d meet and have tea and
discuss. Then things ‘ud be all right---“ (103).
“If only they could get a message to us,” cried Ralph desperately. “If only they could
send us something grown-up… a sign or something” (103). Ralph wants a sign for the
grown-ups, wants help, and wants to desperately keep civilized.
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“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And
then…remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire, the talk of fear. “Then people
started getting frightened” (89). Ralph is starting to understand their degeneration into
savagery and what is keeping them from being civilized- they are all in great fear and
this is bringing out the worst in all of them.
“The thing is—fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream” (90). Jack is using the fear to
his advantage, as a political strategy to strike fear into others and it is transforming him
into a cruel person.
“That’s a clever beast… If it can hide on this island” (95). Piggy says this saying that the
beast must be clever to be able to hide on the island, the beast is the dark human
nature in all of the boys including Jack and darkness is clever. Darkness and evil can
deceive and destroy and it cleverly found its way into Jacks heart as well as other boys
on the island.
“If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway. I can’t see what they’re doing but I
can hear” (101). Piggy can sense temptation for evil and knows the potential they have
to become soo.
“I know about people. I know about me. And him. He can’t hurt you: but if you stand out
of the way he’d hurt the next thing. And that’s me” (102). Piggy is smart and knows that
Jack hates him and that Ralph and his reasoning is what protects him and keeps him
safe, this is foreshadowing of Piggy’s death.
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CH.6
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“But a sign came down from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no
child awake to read it…. A figure dropping swiftly beneath the parachute, a figure that
hung with dangling limbs” (104). After Piggy begs for a sign from the adults to help
them, a plane is hot down and a dead parachutist falls from the sky and gets stuck in a
tree, becoming the beast- this shows that the adults in their world back home are at war
and they are just as savage as the boys.
“Hair much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or twig; clothes,
worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on, nor for decorum or comfort but out of
custom; the skin of the body scurfy with brine” (110). The boys are looking less and less
civilized through the novel and looking more like savages, their outward appearance is a
hint towards their inward state.
“They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with terror to the description the
twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme silence. Soon the darkness was full of
claws, full of the awful unknown and menace” (108).
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“We don’t need the conch any more. We know who ought to say things. What good did
Simon do speaking, or Bill, or Walter? It’s time some people knew they’ve got to keep
quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us-----“ (111). Jack wants control and
power and doesn’t care for anyone else’s voice or opinions.
“Piggy let out his breath with a gasp, reached for it again and failed. He lay against a log,
his mouth gaping, blue shadows creeping round his lips” (113). Piggy becomes
extremely frightened of the person Jack has become and the evil inside of him, he feels
as if he will be killed by him if not protected by Ralph.
“Jack. The beast might be on the other side. You can lead again. You’ve been” (118) The
boys are starting to rely on Jack for guidance because of the protection that he offers, as
they are around Jack, they themselves given into their evil human nature.
CH.7
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“Ralph was content to follow Jack along it” (120). Is starting to give up trying to fight
against Jack—but follow him at times.
“Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day” (120). Ralph becoming more
aware of man’s lack of faith.
“He discovered with a little fall of the heart that these were the conditions he took as
normal now and that he did not mind” (121). Ralph is becoming used to their lives on
the island and their gradual descent into savagery.
“On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield
of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue’ but here, faced by the brute obtuseness
of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was
condemned, one was—“ Pg 123 Ralph.
“No, I’m not. I just think you’ll get back all right.” Simon Pg 123
“The ground was turned over near the pig-run and there were droppings that steamed.
Jack bent down to them as though he loved them.” Pg 123
“So as the stars moved across the sky, the fire sat on the mountain-top and bowed and
sank and bowed again.” Pg 105
What does the dead parachutist symbolizes?
“…Everything was all right; everything was good-humored and friendly.” Ralph talking
about his past—pg 124
“Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride.” Ralph hit Jack’s pig and was proud
of it—pg 124
“He tried for their attention.” Ralph—pg 126
“The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” Ralph—pg 126
“You want a real pig…because you’ve got to kill him”, “Use a littlun,” said Jack, and
everybody laughed.” Robert and Jack—pg 127
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“The twins nodded like on boy.” Pg 127
“Ralph looked at the sun critically.” Pg 128
“Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism, understanding that this was how Jack felt
as soon as he ceased to lead.” Pg 130
“ Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack. The sting of ashed in his eyes, tiredness, fear,
enraged him.” Ralph—pg 133
“A stain in the darkness, a stain that was Jack, detached itself and began to draw away.”
Pg 133
“For the first time since he had first know Jack, Ralph could feel him hesitate.” Pg 134
“He bound himself together with is will, fused his fear and loathing into a hatred.”
Ralph—pg 136
“The sound of the inexpertly blown conch interrupted them. As though he were
serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the
hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did.
Ralph rose obediently, and Piggy and they went to the platform.” Jack overthrowing
Ralph’s authority—pg 138
“And the next thing is that Ralph said my hunters are no good….He’s like Piggy. He says
things like Piggy. He isn’t a proper chief…He’s a coward himself.” Jack—pg 129
“I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you.” Jack-- Pg 141
“We can do without ‘em. We’ll be happier now, won’t we?” The twins—pg 145
“He shifted restlessly but there was no avoiding the sun.” pg 14
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“Do all right on our own,” said Piggy, “It’s them that haven’t no common sense that
make trouble on the island.” Ralph—pg146.
“Ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the osng of
angels….”I’m going to be chief… forget the beast.” Jack—pg 147
He was happy and wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes.” Jack—pg
147
“She squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror.”
The pig—Pg 149.
“The butterflies still danced preoccupied in the centre of the clearing.” Pg 149
“At last the immediacy of the kill subsided…Jack stood up, holding out his hands.” Jack
showing his pride of the kill—pg 149
“We’ll raid them and take fire.” Jack- power by force—Pg 150
“This head is for the beast. It’s a gift.” The silence accepted the gift and awed them. The
head remained there, dim-eyed, grinning faintly, blood blackening between the teeth.
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All at once they were running away, as fast as they could, through the forest towards
the open beach.” Jack—pg 151
“The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. Simon—Pg 151
“ He was vexed to find how little he thought like a grown-up and sighed again. The
island was getting worse and worse.” Ralph—Pg 153
“I’m scared,” Not of the beast. I mean I’m sared of that too. But nobody else
understands about the fire. If someone threw you a rope when you were drowning. If a
doctor said take this because if you don’t take it you’ll die—you would, wouldn’t you? I
mean?” Ralph—pg 153
“What’s more, I don’t sometimes. Supposing I got like the others—not caring. What’ud
become of us/”..”I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that’s all. That’s what grown-ups
would do.” Ralph and piggy—pg 154
“Jack.” A taboo was evolving round that word too.” Ralph—pg 154
“Piggy stood on the platform, the white conch gripped in his hands.” Pg 155
“ But we must keep the fire burning. The fire’s the most important thing on the island,
because, because--.” He paused again and the silence became full of doubt and
wonder.” Ralph—pg 156. Starting forget motivation and rescue.
“Simon’s head wobbled. His eyes were half- closed as thought he were imitating the
obscene thing on the stick.” Jack—pg 158
“ We are going to have fun on this island! So don’t try it on, my poor misguided boy, or
else… We shall do you, see/ Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy
and Ralph. Do you see?” Lord of the flies—pg 159
CH 9
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“Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spit guts look
like a heap of glistening coal.” Pg 160
“Even when the vessel broke in Simon’s nose and the blood gushed out they left him
alone, preferring the pig’s high flavour.” Pg 160. The boys did not listen to simon and
favored the darkness and the pig more.
“Simon got to his feet. The light was unearthly. The lord of the flies hung on his stick like
a black ball.” Pg 160
“This was the backbone of the island, the slightly higher land that lay beneath the
mountain where the forest was no longer deep jungle.” Pg 161
“Simon saw a humped thing suddenly sit up on the top and look down at him. He hid his
face and toiled on.” Pg 161
“The flies had found the figure too. The life-like movement would scare them off for a
moment so that they made a dark cloud round the head. Then as the blue material of
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the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies
settle once more.”
“the fire by the platform appeared to be out, or at least making no smoke. Further along
the beach, beyond the little river and near a great slab of rock, a thing trickle of smoke
was climbing into the sky.” Pg 162
“Mind my specs,” said Piggy. “If I get water on the glass I got to get out and clean ‘em.”
Pg 162
“He laughed at Piggy and expecting him to retire meekly as usual and in pained silence,
Instead, Piggy beat the water with his hands.” Pg 162
“There was a stretch of grass in a place where the palms left a wide band of turf
between the forest and the shore.” Pg 163. Describing the difference between the
forest where Jack is and shore where Ralph is.
“His tone conveyed a warning, given out of the pride of ownership, and the boys ate
faster while there was still time.” Pg 165
“Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms; authority sat on his shoulder and
chattered in his ear like an ape.” Pg 165. Jack
“Ralph made a sudden movement that became a stumble. Some of the boys turned
towards him.” Pg 165. Shows that Ralph is noticed and may have some power still.
“And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island.” Jack pg 166
“Come away. There’s going to be trouble. And we’ve had out meat.” Pg 166 Piggy.
“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood1”…Now out of the terror rose another
desire, thick, urgent, blind.. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose
before the beast was like a pain.” Pg 168
“An instant later the noise was on them like the blow of a gigantic whip. The chant rost a
tone in agony.” Pg 168
“The blue white scar was constant, the noise unendurable. Simon was crying out
something about a dead man on a hill.”
“The beast was on its knees in the centre, its arms folded over its face…There were no
words and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.” Pg 168
“The parachute took the figure forward, furrowing the lagoon and bumped it over the
reef and out to sea.” Pg 169 Simon and the parachute.
“Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea.” Pg 169. The washing away of the
parachute and Simon destroys the proof that the beast does not exist.
CH 10
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“They continued to sit, gazing with impaired sight at the cief’s seat and the glittering
lagoon. The green light and the glossy patches of sunshine played over their befouled
bodies.” Pg 172
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“It was dark. There was that—that bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and
rain. We was scared.” Pg 172 Piggy