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31 Cards in this Set
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Simon’s shocking Assertion |
“What I mean is...maybe it’s only us” |
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Jack excited, telling Ralph about first kill
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“What I mean is...maybe it’s only us”
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The Chant
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Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.
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Jack is like a monkey
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ape-like
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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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Savage!Ralph being cautious
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He raised his spear, snarled a little, and waited.
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Ralph is a nice guy
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mild expression proclaims him “no devil.”
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Jack is an evil guy
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distinguished by his ugliness and his red hair, a traditional demonic attribute.
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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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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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Piggy annoyed by immaturity
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“Like a pack of kids.”
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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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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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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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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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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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Phrases for ritual
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“need for ritual” the mystic repetition of the initial event.”
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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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Simon loses consciousness
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“Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness.”
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Piggy show Ralph he has to blow the conch
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“what else is there to do?”
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Simon needs more charisma
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“that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality”
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Foreshadowing of Piggy’s eating
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"What would a beat eat?" "Pig" "We eat Pig" he rationally answers The next word is "Piggy!" |
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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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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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Ironic Navy officer comment about having war |
“`What have you been doing? Having a war or something?'” |
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Jack’s mention of a stick at both ends |
"'Sharpen a stick at both ends.'
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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 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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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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Jack’s rationalization of the Pig’s head
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“gift for the beast”
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Roger prepared to kill Ralph
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Roger sharpened the stick at both ends.” |
