chapter 5 Flashcards

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“understood how much he disliked perpetually…

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flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes” (Ralph)

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“Ralph sat he faced the island…

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but to the boys was a darkish figure against the shimmer of the lagoon”

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“Only, decided Ralph as he faced the chief’s seat…

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I can’t think. Not like Piggy”

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“But Piggy…

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for all of his ludicrous body, had brains”

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5
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“We decide things…

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but they don’t get done” (Ralph)

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6
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“Jack started to chip…

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a piece of wood with his knife”

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“But I tell you the smoke…

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is more important than the pig, however often you kill one” (Ralph)

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“you’re a lot of cry-babies…

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and sissies (Jack)

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“Unless we get frightened…

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of people” (Piggy)

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10
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“I wanted- to go to a place…

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a place I know (Simon)

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“Ralph remembered another small boy…

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who had stood like this and flinched at the memory”

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12
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“no one had seen the…

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mulberry-coloured birthmark again”

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13
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“That’s a clever beast…

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if it can hide on this island” (Piggy)

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“to Ralph, seated…

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this seemed the breaking up of sanity”

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“fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important….

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and when one tried to get the thing straight the argument sheered off, bringing up fresh, unpleasant matter”

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16
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“Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak…

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but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him”

17
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“what I mean is…

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maybe it’s only us.” (Simon)

18
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“Nuts!” that was from…

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Piggy, shocked out of decorum”

19
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“Simon became inarticulate in his effort…

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to express mankind’s essential illness”

20
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“Simon’s effort fell about him in ruins…

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the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat”

21
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“Who cares what you believe…

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Fatty!” (Jack)- capital letter for Fatty

22
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“the world, that understandable…

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and lawful world, was slipping away”

23
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“What are we? Humans…

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Or animals? Or savages? (Piggy)

24
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“You shut up…

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you fat slug” (Jack)

25
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“Jack! Jack! You haven’t got the conch…

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Let him speak” (Ralph)

26
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“And you shut up! Who are you, anyway?…

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Sitting there telling people what to do. You can’t hunt, you can’t sing” (Jack to Ralph)

27
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“The rules!” shouted Ralph.”You’re breaking the rules….

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Who cares?” (Ralph and Jack)

28
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“Because the rules are the only…

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thing we’ve got!” (Ralph)

29
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“Bollocks…

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to the rules” (Jack)

30
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“We’ll close in and beat…

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and beat and beat!”

31
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“the sound of mock hunting, hysterical laughing…

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and real terror came from the beach”

32
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“If I blow the conch…

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and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it” (Ralph)

33
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“If Jack was chief…

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he’d have all hunting and no fire. We’d be here till we died” (Piggy)

34
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“If you give up…

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said Piggy, in an appalled whisper, “what ‘ud happen to me?”