LOTF quote ch 11-12

English 10                                                                               Name:____________________

Lord of the Flies                                                                     Period:_____________

Chapters 11-12                                                                       Date:_______________

 

 

1. “You can take spears if you want but I shan’t. What’s the good? I’ll have to be led like a dog, anyhow. Yes, laugh at anything. And what happened? What’s grownups goin’ to think? Young Simon was murdered. And there was that other kid what had a mark on his face. Who’s seen him since we first come here?” Who said this and what do the boys want to take spears to do?­­­­­­­­­­_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

2. “You’re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!” He charged. Who is this?

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3. “Which is better—to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is? Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” Again the clamor. Ralph shouted against the noise. “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?” Who is the unnamed speaker here?

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4. This time the silence was complete. Ralph’s lips formed a word but no sound came. Suddenly Jack bounded out from the tribe and began screaming wildly. “See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone—“ He ran forward, stooping. “I’m chief!” What had just happened to shock Ralph and send Jack into a frenzy of power?

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5. He walked slowly into the middle of the clearing and looked steadily at the skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done and seemed to jeer at him cynically. An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless. Or was it? Little prickles of sensation ran up and down his back. He stood, the skull about on a level with his face, and held up his hair with two hands. The teeth grinned, the empty sockets seemed to hold his gaze masterfully and without effort. What was it? It regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won’t tell. A sick fear and rage swept him. What does Ralph do to The Lord of the Flies, and what does this symbolize?

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6. Roger sharpened a stick at both ends. What was the purpose of this?

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7. He staggered to his feet, tensed for more terrors, and looked up at a huge peaked cap. It was a white-topped cap, and above the green shade of the peak was a crown, an anchor, gold foliage. He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of a uniform. What or who is this, and how does it affect Ralph’s fate?

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8. Other boys were appearing now, tiny tots some of them, brown, with the distended bellies of small savages. One of them came close to the officer and looked up. “I’m, I’m—“ But there was no more to come. Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away. Why couldn’t the littluns speak?

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9. Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. The officer, surrounded by these noises, was moved and a little embarrassed. He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance. Why did William Golding end his book this way? What irony was his illustrating?

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