LOTF Key Quotes Flashcards
(12 cards)
Chapter 1 key quotes
“The creature was a party of boys.”
“For a moment the boys were a close circuit of sympathy with Piggy on the outside.”
“Understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.”
Chapter 2 key quotes
“You got your small fire alright.” (Piggy)
Chapter 3 key quotes
[Jack] tried to “convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”
“Two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.”
Chapter 4 key quotes
“Taboo of the old life” (Applies to Roger)
“Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilisation that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”
“The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated fro shame and self consciousness.”
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
Chapter 5 key quotes
“Maybe it’s only us.” (Simon)
“If only they could send us something grown up..” (MAYBE???)
Chapter 6 key quotes
“Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace.”
“I’ve got the conch!” / “Conch! Conch!” (Piggy then Jack)
Chapter 7 key quotes
“Cut this hair…” (MAYBE???)
“Shield of the lagoon, one might dream of rescue, […] one was clamped down, one was helpless, one was condemned..”
“I just think you’ll get back alright.” (SIMON)
Chapter 8 key quotes
“Then Jack found the throat”
“The sow collapsed under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her.”
“Spoke in the voice of a schoolmaster.” (MAYBE)
Chapter 9 key quotes
“Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms; authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape.”
“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.”
Chapter 10 key quotes
“Roger received this news as an illumination […] possibilities of irresponsible authority.”
Chapter 11 key quotes
“Piggy a bag of fat.”
“The fragile, shining beauty of the shell.”
“The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”
“Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed.”
Chapter 12 key quotes?
“These painted savages would go further and further.”
“Skull that gleamed as white as ever the conch had done.”
“Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.” (MAYBE???)
“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.”
