Lord of the Flies Chapters 7 to 12 Test Review Key Characters: Ralph Sam-n-Eric Piggy Percival Jack Simon Roger Pig Head on a Stick British Naval Officer Key Novel Terms: Climax, Falling Action, Conclusion, Resolution Atmosphere – How has it changed from the start? Running images / Motif Symbolism Conflicts – Conflicts are largely Person versus Person in these 6 chapters (or is it Person versus Self?) Suspense and Foreshadowing Key Symbols – Notice how key symbols from the start of the novel are very different at the end: The conch Piggy’s (broken) glasses Pigs The parachutist / Simon’s dead body The fire at the end of the novel The beast / pig head on a stick (What is the beast at the end of the novel?) Roger’s spear sharpened at both ends The British naval officer The six chapter titles – Shadows and Tall Trees, Gift for the Darkness, A View to a Death, The Shell and the Glasses, Castle Rock, Cry of the Hunters The novel title – Lord of the Flies Key Themes: The darkness of human hearts The end of civilization Rescue (but is it really a rescue?) Key Quote from William Golding: “The theme (of Lord of the Flies) is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. The moral is that the shape of a society must depend on the ethical nature of the individual and not on any political system however apparently logical or respectable. The whole book is symbolic in nature except the rescue in the end where adult life appears, dignified and capable, but in reality enmeshed in the same evil as the symbolic life of the children on the island. The officer, having interrupted a man-hunt, prepares to take the children off the island in a cruiser which will presently be hunting its enemy in the same implacable way. And who will rescue the adult and his cruiser?”