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133 Cards in this Set
- Front
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A challenge to Piggy's science
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As Piggy says, life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean—
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A description of the parachutist
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- "The life-like movement
- "(when the) blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more"; - the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colours of corruption; - he saw how pitilessly the layers of rubber and canvas held together the poor body that should be rotting away. Then the wind blew again and the figure lifted, bowed, and breathed foully at him |
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A savage in the chaos of hunting Ralph whom Ralph later attacks in desperation
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He was coughing and smearing the paint about his eyes...as he tried to see through the increasing smoke.
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Ahhh general disillusion with mankind
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He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
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Boys becoming beasts killing Simon
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tearing of teeth and claws; The crowd ... leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore
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Can't hurt Henry
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- Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.
- Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. - Roger was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins." |
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Comfort from Simon to Ralph by the time he is dead
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Don't scream. You'll get back
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Creepy LOTF lines
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"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
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Creepy part 2
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You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else--
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DAT ONE PHRASE THAT STARTED EVERYTHING UTTERED BY ROGER
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"'Let's have a vote
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Description of conch's appearance
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"in color, the shell was deep cream, touched here and there by fading pink...
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Description of Roger's personality
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He was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy"
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Difficulty with meetings with Ralph
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Someone called out. "Too many things."
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Dumb officer
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"'I should have thought,' said the officer as he visualized the search before him,'I should have thought that a pack of British boys-you're all British, aren't you?- would have been able to put up a better show than that-'"
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Evidence that mankind cannot entirely exonerate himself from evil with the reason that it's the natural state
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When Jack first blackens his face like a savage, he gives his explanation: "`For hunting. Like in war. You know—dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else.'" ...
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Expectations of leadership
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The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise."
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First confrontation between Jack and Ralph
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The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled common sense; The link between Ralph and Jack "had snapped and fastened elsewhere."
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Foreshadowing of Piggy's eating
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Piggy's death, soon to follow Simon's, is foreshadowed when the former proclaims at council that there is no beast. "`What would a beast eat?'" "`Pig.'" "`We eat pig,'" he rationally answers. "`Piggy!'" is the next word.
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Goodbye Simon
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"The water rose further and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble..."
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Guit regarding Simon
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Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively."
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Henry likes power
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He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery."
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How Jack, Roger and Ralph see the beast
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Before them, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees
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Imagery of the disadvantages and chaos of democracy
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"Hands were reaching for the conch in the light of the setting sun,"
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Innocence flowers
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"candle-like buds" "the green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air."
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Ironic Navy officer comment about having war
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"`What have you been doing? Having a war or something?'"
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Jack and the dual nature of good and evil in his preparation for what is to be his forst successful hunt
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"...slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw." (divided between good and evil)
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Jack dehumanizing himself on first hunt
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"nose only a few inches from the humid earth." proceeds forward "on all fours" "into the semi-darkness of the undergrowth."
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Jack excited, telling Ralph about first kill
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"You should have seen the blood"
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Jack is an evil guy because look who he's leading
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- First appears as the leader of a church choir, which "creature-like" marches in two columns behind him.
- All members of the choir wear black; "their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks." - Jack approaches with his choir from the "darkness of the forest," he cannot see Ralph, whose back is to the sun. The former is, symbolically, sun-blinded. |
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Jack is an evil guy becos of his appearence
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distinguished by his ugliness and his red hair, a traditional demonic attribute.
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Jack is like a monkey
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ape-like
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Jack regarding fear
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The thing is- fear can't hurt you more than a dream
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Jack to Simon's kindness to Piggy
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"Eat! Damn you
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Jack's clothes
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He is naked except for "a pair of tattered shorts held up by a knife belt"
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Jack's initiation as a hunter
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Jack transferred the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair.
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Jack's mask liberation
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"...the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness" (unteethered from humanity, feelings and vulnerability) "He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarl"
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Jack's mention of a stick at both ends
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"'Sharpen a stick at both ends.'
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Jack's political tricks
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"verbal trick. "I'm sorry. About the fire, I mean...
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Jack's rationalization of the Pig's head
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"gift for the beast"
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Jacks such an insensitive hole to the litt-uns
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Anyway, you don't hunt or build or help—you're a lot of cry-babies and sissies. That's what. And as for the fear—you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us." Ralph looked at Jack open-mouthed, but Jack took no notice. (he then goes on to talk about an animal that the hunters caould kill and wrecks any work that Ralph had previously done)
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Joy of having killed a pig
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"His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink."
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Later Ralph and fear
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"He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear"
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Narrator praising Piggy;s intelligence
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The greatest ideas are the simplest
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No one likes what Simon says
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"Maybe, he said hesitantly, maybe there is a beast.
The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement. You, Simon? You believe in this? I don't know, said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. |
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NO ONE UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE FIRE
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"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 you'll die - you would, wouldn't you?"
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Ominous Samneric
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"Two boys...two dim shadows talking sleepily. Samneric are referred to as "dim shadows", as they are symbolically representing the darkness that is associated with shadows. At this point in the story, the shadows are described as appearing dim because Samnerics' potential actions are unclear and undefined in intention. They may appear innocent, but as their dim appearance professes through foreshadowing, somewhere along the line, their true shadows, or darkness, will emerge. It is probable that this moment of recognition is intended to be when Samneric betray Ralph.
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Outcast!Ralph
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Ralph moaned faintly. Tired though he was, he could not relax and fall into a well of sleep for fear of the tribe. Lying there in the darkness, he knew he was an outcast.
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Phrases for ritual
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"need for ritual" the mystic repetition of the initial event."
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Piggy annoyed by immaturity
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"Like a pack of kids."
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Piggy explains his vulnerability to Jack to Ralph
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"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"
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Piggy is scared of Jack
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"I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe."
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Piggy is so compatible with conch
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A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.
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Piggy reprimanding and invoking THE ADULT
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think?
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Piggy responsible about big fire
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"Piggy glanced nervously into hell...'We got to let that burn out now. And that was our firewood.'"
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Piggy show Ralph the only choice he has is to blow the conch
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"what else is there to do?"
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Piggy thinks that they wanted the conch
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"'I thought they wanted the conch,'"
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Piggy's death, description and significance
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At Piggy's death his body twitches "like a pigs after it has been killed." Not only has his head been smashed, but also the conch, symbol of order, is simultaneously broken
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Piggy's harsh truth on Playful!Ralph
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we may stay here till we die
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Piggy's other ultimatum
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?"
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Piggy's proposition of the beast
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"I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either."
Piggy paused."Unless—"Ralph moved restlessly."Unless what?""Unless we get frightened of people." |
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Piggy's sciemtific cure for fear
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You have doctors for everything, even the inside of your mind. You don't really mean that we got to be frightened all the time of nothing? Life," said Piggy expansively, "is scientific, that's what it is.
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Piggy's Ultimatum to Tribe
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"which is better - to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill,"
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Piggy;s afraid of the beast
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"Couldn't we- kind of- stay here? Maybe the beast won't come near us"
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Poor Johnny
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Johnny, yawning still, burst into noisy tears and was slapped by Bill till he choked on them."
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Proud Annoying Jack regarding rules
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"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."
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Rallying cry to hear Simon
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Hear him! He's got the conch!
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Ralph accuses Jack
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"You let the fire go out"
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Ralph and bathing
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"Bathing thats the only thing to do
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Ralph and Jack feels about each other
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"They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate."
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Ralph and Jack getting back together
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All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.
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Ralph and Piggy
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"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." "If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway."
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Ralph and Piggy all alone after Jack and boys off to go play with fire
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Jack clamored among them, the conch forgotten...Ralph was left, holding the conch, with no one but Piggy,"
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Ralph and Piggy understanding the temptation of mastery over fear
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"Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable."
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Ralph and the pig's skull
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"the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across"
Ralph, then "wrenched the quivering stick from the crack and held it as a spear between him and the white pieces"(185) of the skull. In this moment Ralph picks up the spear as if it were a line between him and evil and crosses over to the dark side. |
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Ralph at start naked
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"He undid his snake-clasp belt, lugged off his shorts and pants, and stood there naked..."
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Ralph disillusion regarding order in a meeting
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"things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then -- ...Then people started getting frightened,"
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Ralph getting disturbingly excited by his new weapon
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"The stake was in his hands, the stake that vibrated so wildly, that grew long, short, light, heavy, light again."
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Ralph getting serious about weapon
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He felt the point of his spear with his thumb and grinned without amusement. Whoever tried that would be stuck, squealing like a pig."
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Ralph is a nice guy
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mild expression proclaims him "no devil."
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Ralph is afraid of people
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"I'm frightend. Of us. I want to go home. O God I want to go home." "It's was an accident," said Piggy stubbornly,"and that's that." He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact."
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Ralph is self aware of how dumb their mission is
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Fat lot of good we are," said Ralph. "Three blind mice."
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Ralph losinga ability to articulate
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"He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again."
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Ralph sick and tired of the wilds
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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."
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Ralph steps forward to face the beast even in fear
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He bound himself together with his will, fused his fear and loathing into a hatred, and stood up. He took two leaden steps forward
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Ralph vs group
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defeated by the silence and the painted anonymity of the group
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Ralph wanting to look decent b4 confronting Jack's tribe
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"supposing we go, looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed- after all we aren't savages really and being rescued isn't a game (only one who cares about appearence)
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Ralph wants to clean clothes
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"he pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it (109)." (grey-not all good or bad)
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Ralph wants to think
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"If only one had time to think!"
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Ralph weeping
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with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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Ralph's optimistic fantasy
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"Here at last was the imagined but never fully realized place leaping into real life."
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Ralph, Jack and the rules
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"The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?"
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Reason for Ralph being outcast
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"'Cos I had some sense."
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Roger killing Piggy
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"High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever"
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Roger not-so-thepig-anymore
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"Roger ceased to be a pig and became a hunter, so that the center of the ring yawned emptily"
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sad line about having followed adults
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we did everything the adults would do, what went wrong
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Samneric are like the dogs of the boys on the island
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"'...mostly sleep in shelters...except for Samneric,...you'll sleep there.'
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Samneric betray Ralph
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Ralph goes into hiding, and depends on Samneric to keep his location a secret, as he says to them, "'I'll lie up close; in that thicket down there,' he whispered, 'so keep them away from it...'(190)" Ralph entrusts his life with Samneric, as Jack and Roger have premeditated a horrible death for him. Unfortunately, Samneric betray Ralph and disclose the location of his hideout. When interrogated, the savages ask Samneric, "'He meant he'd hide in there?' 'Yes-yes-oh!' Silver laughter scattered among the trees. So they knew.(192)" It is rather unusual and strange to find the word "silver" mentioned in such context. However, Judas, who betrayed Jesus, was paid with thirty pieces of silver
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Samneric combined fear
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"They became motionless, gripped in each other's arms, four unwinking eyes aimed and two mouths open.
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Samneric conformity when about to confront Jack's tribe
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'We ought to take spears.
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Samneric lose their sense of themselves with Jack
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While being with Jack for some time, they begin to be called Samneric. Jack calls them, "'Samneric...'(63)" when he plans out his dazzle paint.
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SAMNERIC opposition to torturers
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protested out of the heart of civilization
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Samneric potentially dangerous from appearance and no personality
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"...bullet-headed and with hair like tow... "...they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open.
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Samneric ready to please Jack
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"...Sam and Eric were waiting...(63)" for their next task that were to be given to them by Jack. The boys would pretty much only do as they were told.
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Samneric, eager to please Ralph
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"...flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.
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Savage!Ralph being cautious
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He raised his spear, snarled a little, and waited.
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Simon has the ????? recognition
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"ancient, inescapable recognition"
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Simon loses consciousness
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"Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness."
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Simon needs more charisma
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"that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality"
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Simon remembering the pig's head
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Simon stayed where he was...Even if he shut his eyes the sow's head still remained...even the butterflies deserted the open space...in front of Simon, the Lord of The Flies hung on a stock and grinned.
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Simon's Church cross
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"A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaning against the tress that still stood, and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top." (like a cross in a church)
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Simon's Church description
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"They were on the lip of circular hollow...air was thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, settling" + Since they had not far to go for light the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space...the while space was walled in by dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light.
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Simon's reassurance to Ralph
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"You'll get back to where you came from"
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Simon's shocking Assertion
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"What I mean is...maybe it's only us"
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Simon's vision of a man
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"a human at once heroic and sick."
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Symbolic linking of candle bud flowers and kids
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"The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of the island."
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The beast according to Simon is....
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"harmless and horrible."
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The Chant
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.
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The conditioning of Ralph to order at the start of the book
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"The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture"
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The description of the destruction of the conch
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the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist,
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The Kid's overactive imagination
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children's fears distort the natural objects around them: twigs become creepers, shadows become demons.
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The oneness of Samneric
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"'...to treat Samneric as one turn. They do everything together-', "...breathed together,...grinned together.(19)""The twins stood with the pig swinging between them...They seemed to share one wide, ecstatic grin.
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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 toward the open beach
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They want their adults
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I wish my auntie was here." "I wish my father.. O, what's the use?"
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Three boys liking adults
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"The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life"
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Unreliable Samneric regarding beast
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'We've seen the beast with our own eyes
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Violent side of military officer
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In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun
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What should they do as adults Piggy
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"I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do."
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What Simon does for the parachutist
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"he freed...the figure from the wind's indignity"
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When Jack tells them to forget about the beast
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"They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives." (when Jack tells them to forget about the beast)
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When Ralph is offered meat the first time a pig is killed
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"he accepted a piece of half-raw meat and gnawed it like a wolf. Despite being furious with Jack and the hunters for letting the fire out, Ralph is unable to stick to his principles in the face of his basic desire to eat meat.
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When Roger first sees Jack in his mask
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opened his eyes and saw him a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin
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Wise Piggy's hair
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"He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow. The rest were shock-headed, but Piggy's hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness were his natural state, and this imperfect covering would soon go, like the velvet on a young stag's antlers."
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Wish that they were still boys
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"Might it not be possible to walk boldly into the fort, say -"I've got pax," laugh lightly and sleep among the others? Pretend they were still boys, schoolboys who had said, "Sir, yes, Sir" -and worn caps? Daylight might have answered yes; but darkness and the horrors of death said no.
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