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CP English III
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Mrs. Lynch
Lord of the Flies Chapters Three and Four Questions
Directions: Please answer each of the following questions to the best of your ability.
Questions with an asterisk should be answered with a quote.
Chapter Three: Huts on the Beach
1. What is Jack doing in the beginning of the chapter? How does this symbolize
his change?
2. How has his appearance changed? *
3. What is Jack compared to?* How does this predict his future change?
4. What does Jack find to track the pigs? *
5. What first divides the boys?*
6. Who has been working and what have the rest of the boys been doing?*
7. Of what are the littleuns afraid?
8. What are the saying about the island?* Do you think it is true? Explain.
9. Explain the following quote: “If you’re hunting sometimes, you catch yourself
feeling as if—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.”
10. What does the fact that the boys go get a bath say about them still?
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11. What could this be an allegory for? “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.”
12. Where does Simon go?* Why?
13. Describe Simon’s new “spot”*.
Chapter Four: Painted Faces and Long Hair
1. Why don’t the boys need “hope”?
2. What are the boys seeing during the day and what is it regarded as?* Do you
think it is real or not? Explain.
3. What do the boys do with their time?
4. Describe the three boys who are playing together.*
5. Explain what this quote means: “Round the squatting child was the
protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger’s arm was
conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”
6. What is in the two large leaves that Jack is carrying and what does he lay
down next to them?* What could this symbolize?
7. What do they use they use the answer to number 6 for?*
8. How does the mask transform Jack?
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9. What does Piggy want to make?* How do the other boys react to it?*
10. What irks Ralph?* Why do you think this is?
11. What do the boys see?*
12. Why are the boys running through the forest as quickly as possible?
13. With the fire dead, what else is dead?
14. What does Jack come back with?*
15. What phrase do the boys say as they carry the pig back?* What does this tell
you about their current state of being/mind?
16. Jack and Ralph disagree about the importance of allowing the fire to go out.
What might this foreshadow?
17. Explain the importance of this quote: “There was lashings of blood,” said Jack,
laughing and shuddering, “you should have seen it!”
18. Describe the atmosphere created during Jack and Ralph’s arguments. How
are their attitudes indicative of their priorities?
19. To whom is Jack’s violence directed?
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20. Where does unkindness melt away?* Why does this make sense with the
color motifs we ‘ve discussed?
21. Why does Jack get angry and throw meat at Piggy?*
22. How did the boys kill the pig?*
23. Why is Ralph feeling envious and resentful?