lord of the flies quotes Flashcards
(35 cards)
he was a skinny…
vivid little boy (about simon)
simon found for them…
the fruit they could not reach
simon became inarticulate…
in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness
“Acting like…
a crowd of kids!” (Piggy)
“What are we?…”
“Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think?” (Piggy)
Piggy took off his shoes and socks, ranged them…
carefully on the ledge, and tested the water with one toe
He snatched his knife…
out of the sheath and slammed into a tree trunk. Next time there would be no mercy (Jack)
Jack seized…
the conch
Jack himself shrank…
at this cry with a hiss of in drawn breath
Ape-like…
among the tangle of trees (Jack)
He tried to convey…
the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up (Jack)
Looped fantasy…
of forest creepers (setting)
Blue flowers…
of the mountain side (setting)
Glittering…
sea (setting)
in the middle of the scar…
he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy (Ralph)
A mildness…
about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil (Ralph)
“Be sucking my thumb next…”
he looked round, furtively (Ralph)
He felt the need…
of witnesses (Ralph)
Ralph wept…
for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy
stood there among the skull like…
coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin (setting)
pleased despite himself…
at even this much recognition (Piggy)
He noticed blood…
on his hands and grimaced distastefully (Jack)
He held the shell up…
instead and showed it to them and they understood (the conch)
The rock struck Piggy…
a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist (the conch)
