| boy with fair hair, twelve, he might make a boxer, mild mouth, no devil (1,5) | Ralph |
| plump knees, short and fat, looks through thick spectacles(1,2) | Piggy |
| didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead. (9) | piggy (about their situation) |
| We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us- | piggy (about the new found conch) |
| They breathed together, they grinned together, they were chunky and vital. (15) | Sam and Eric |
| tall, thin, and bony, red hair beneath a black cap, freckled and ugly face, eyes ready to turn to anger (17) | Jack |
| slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy (19) | Roger |
| choir boy who faints and has seizures (19)small, skinny, eyes so bright Ralph thought him delightfully gay and wicked, black hair (59) | Simon |
| enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood (30) | narrator (about Jack when he didn’t kill the first pig) |
| We’ll have rules!”.. “lots of rules! Then when anyone breaks ’em (33) | Jack |
| shrimp of a boy, six, mulberry-colored birthmark (35) | mulberry-colored birthmark (dies in the first fire) |
| 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” (44) | Piggy |
| “You got your small fire alright” (45) | Piggy |
| How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper? (47) | Piggy |
| 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 (56) | Jack |
| distant relative of mulberry-marked face (64) | Henry |
| mouse-colored not attractive even to his mother (64) | Percival |
| well built, fair hair and natural belligerence (64) | Johnny |
| felt the unease of wrongdoing (65) | Maurice |
| “became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things” (66) | Henry |
| taboo of old life | Roger (when he was throwing rocks at Henry) |
| _____ arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins (67) | Roger’s |
| hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness (69) | Jack (behind the mask) |
| He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. (69) | Piggy |
| “kill the pig. cut her throat. spill her blood.” (74) | chant (form of propaganda used by the savage tribe to distract the boys from the terrible truth) |
| knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink. (76) | narrator (about Jack when he deserts the fire) |
| He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet. (83) (who is he?) | Ralph (when he realizes that leadership is a lot harder than he thought) |
| “they fire is the most important thing on the island.” (88) | Ralph (in meeting where he discusses restroom use, the fire, the shells full of water, fear and the shelters) |
| So the last part, the bit we can all talk about, is kind of deciding on the fear.” | Ralph in the meeting |
| “unless we get frightened of people” | Piggy |
| self-confident, shares his dream (93) | Phil |
| “He says the beast comes out of the sea” (97) | Jack (reporting for Percival) |
| “Maybe, maybe there is a beast””What I mean is… maybe it’s only us” (98) | Simon |
| man essential illness (98) | evil |
| what’s the dirtiest thing there is? (99) | Simon (talking about the evil within us) |
| “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think? Going off-hunting pigs-letting fires out-and now?” (101) | Piggy (talking about ghosts) |
| self-confident, shares his dream | Phil |
| If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued. (102) | Ralph (Piggy is trying to convince him to blow the conch and call a meeting) |
| Go on being chief. (103) | Simon |
| Keep the fire going (104) | Simon |
| If only they could get get a message to us… If only they could send us something grownup… a sign orsomething (105) | Ralph (discussing what the grownup would do) |
| This’ll be a real hunt! Who’ll come? (112) | Jack (about hunting the beast) |
| It’s time some people knew they’ve got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us. (114) | Jack (about the rules) |
| However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. (116) | Simon (about the dead soldier) |
| Not me. This is a rotten place. (119) | Ralph (about the fort) |
| A strange thing happened in his head. Something flittered there in front of his mind like a bat’s wing, obscuring his idea. (121) (Who is he and what is the bat’s wing) | Ralph, fear |
| You’ll get back to where you came from (125) | Simon (to ralph) |
| Who goes to tell Piggy that the boys will be late? (133) | Simon |
| Before them, something like a great ape (what is the ape) | dead parachutist |
| So we can’t have a signal fire… We’re beaten. (142) | Ralph (the beast is on top of the mountain and the boys do not want to walk up the mountain) |
| I’m not going to play any longer. Not with you. (145) | Jack |
| I think we ought to climb the mountain. What else is there to do? | Simon |
| Sharpen a stick at both ends | Jack (to Roger) |
Lord of the Flies KEY QUOTES
February 10, 2020