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beginning, Jack unable to kill “piglet”
“because of the…”

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enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh, because of the unbearable blood”

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beginning, words used to describe beast

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“a beastie, a snake-thing”

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beginning, Ralph inability to deal with fear of beast: 2 quotes
repetition of “but there…”
“Ralph felt”

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“but there isn’t a beastie”
“Ralph felt himself facing something ungraspable”

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beginning, Piggy as an adult
“with the”

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“martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children”

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beginning, imagery of the first fire, 2 quotes
“the beginnings…”
“a tree…”

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“of awe at the power set free below them.”
“exploded in the fire like a bomb”

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beginning, foreshadowing the fire as the destructor of democracy
“Piggy glanced…”

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“nervously into hell and cradled the conch”

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beginning, Piggy’s glasses
“his specs…”
“Piggy was…”

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“use them as burning glasses”
“surrounded before he could back away”

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beginning, Jack’s obsession with hunting
“He tried to convey…”

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“the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up”

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beginning, Jack personified as an animal
“Jack himself shrank”

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“with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees”

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beginning, Jack losing sight of rescue
“Jack had to…”

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think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was.

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beginning, Jack tries on mask for first time
“The mask was a thing”
and
“mask that”

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on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness”
and
“drew their eyes and appalled them”

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beginning, Ralph’s obsession with civilisation
“Ralph continued to…”
and
“his voice…”

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“watch the ship ravenously”
“rose insanely”

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beginning, Jack retaining some sense of innocence after killing pig
“I cut the pig’s throat,”…

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said Jack, proudly, and yet twitched as he said it.”

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beginning, boys’ after killing pig
“knowledge that they had…”

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outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink”

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beginning, Ralph vs Jack and savagery vs civilisation
“There was the brilliant”

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“world of hunting, tactics fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense”

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beginning, Jack’s violence against the weakest (Piggy)
“drove Jack to violence…”

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The bolting look came into his blue eyes. He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach.

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beginning, Roger conditioned by society
“yet there was”

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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’s arm was conditioned by a society that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”

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middle, Ralph’s acceptance of Piggy
“Piggy could think.”

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He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains

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middle, conch deteriorating
“Exposure to the”

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air had bleached the yellow and pink to near-white, and transparency

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middle, breaking up of civilisation
“To Ralph this seemed the”

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breaking up of sanity. Fear, beasts, no general agreement that the fire was all-important

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middle, Jack unsympathetic leadership style
“you don’t hunt”

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“or build or help―you’re a lot of crybabies and sissies”

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middle, Piggy as the voice of reason
Life,” said…

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said Piggy expansively, “is scientific, that’s what it is.

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middle, mob mentality within assemblies
“The derisive laughter”

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that rose had fear in it and condemnation

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middle, Simon as outsider despite the truth
“Simon’s effort”

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fell about him in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenceless to his seat

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middle, Simon's acknowledgement of innate evil. 2 quotes "What I mean is... " "Simon became inarticulate"
"maybe it's only us", "Nuts!" "in his effort to express mankind's essential illness"
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middle, Piggy vs Jack "What are we?"
Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think? Going off―hunting pigs―letting fires out―and now!" A shadow fronted him tempestuously. "You shut up, you fat slug!"
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middle, Jack's abandonment of civilisation "Bollocks to the rules!
We're strong―we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat―!"
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middle, boys as animalistic "The dispersed figures"
had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved
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middle, yearning for civilisation "The three boys"
stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.
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middle, Ralph as authority against Jack "He can't hurt you:"
but if you stand out of the way he'd hurt the next thing"
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middle, after 'beast', zoomorphism "Soon the darkness"
was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace."
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middle, changing image of circle after beast "The bright morning was full of"
threats and the circle began to change. It faced out, rather than in, and the spears of sharpened wood were like a fence
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middle, Simon's ability to see truth of beast "Simon thought of the beast, there "Simon felt a"
"before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick." "flicker of incredulity"
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middle, Jack's abandonment of conch "We don't need the conch anymore"
We know who ought to say things. It's time some people knew they've got to keep quiet and leave deciding things to the rest of us."
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middle, metaphor of clothes "clothes, worn away,"
put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom
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middle, Ralph vulnerable to savagery "I hit him all right."
I wounded him!" He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.
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middle, Ralph in mock hunt of Robert "Ralph too was fighting to get near"
to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.
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middle, mock hunt of Robert "The circle moved in and round."
Robert squealed in mock terror, then in real pain.
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middle, Ralph sees 'beast' "Now that his physical voice was silent the inner voice of reason..."
"and other voices too, made themselves heard. Piggy was calling him a kid. Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. "
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middle, dead parachutist "There was confusion in"
the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face.
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middle, Jack vs Ralph "What about my hunters?"
"Boys armed with sticks."
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middle, change of choir. 2 quotes. "Each of them wore the" "the row of"
"the remains of a black cap and ages ago they had stood in two demure rows and their voices had been the song of angels." "right arms slid back"
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middle, Jack vs Ralph "He's like Piggy."
He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief." Jack clutched the conch to him. "He's a coward himself."
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middle, beast as deity "and about the beast. When we kill"
we'll leave some of the kill for it. Then it won't bother us, maybe."
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middle, Jack metaphor of clothes "He wore the"
damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes."
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middle, obsession with hunting "The hunters followed"
wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood.
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middle, contrast between hunters and nature "she staggered into an"
open space where bright flowers grew and butterflies danced round each other
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middle, power hunting gives bots "The sow collapsed"
under them and they were heavy and fulfilled upon her.
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middle, offerings for beast, 2 quotes "Sharpen a" "This head is"
"stick at both ends" and "for the beast. It's a gift"
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middle, respect for conch from some boys "When I saw Jack"
"I was sure he'd go for the conch. Can't think why." The group of boys looked at the white shell with affectionate respect.
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end, Simon seeing truth about beast "he understood."
The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody
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end, Simon "The beast was"
harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.
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end, Jack "Jack, painted and"
garlanded, sat there like an idol.
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end, Piggy "Ralph and the crowd of boys were"
united and relieved by a storm of laughter. Piggy once more was the centre of social derision
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end, Jack "Power lay in the brown"
swell of his forearms: authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape.
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end, Ralph and Piggy "Piggy and Ralph, under the threat"
of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society.
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end, Simon's death "At once the crowd"
surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore
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end, Simon's death "The beast was on its"
knees in the centre, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill.
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end, Simon "The line of his cheek silvered"
and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble.
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end, Ralph "Memory of the dance that"
none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively.
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end, Jack Roger: "assimilating the possibilities"
of irresponsible authority.
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end, Jack "No! How could we―kill―it?"
Half-relieved, half-daunted by the implication of further terrors, the savages murmured again.
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end, Piggy "Ralph tried indignantly to remember."
"There was something good about a fire. Something overwhelmingly good." "that curtain flapped in his head"
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end, Ralph "But the attraction of wildness had gone."
His mind skated to a consideration of a tamed town where savagery could not set foot.
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end, stealing Piggy's glasses "then there was a vicious snarling"
in the mouth of the shelter and the plunge and thump of living things.
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end, Jack "He was a chief now in"
truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy's broken glasses.
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end, Piggy "Piggy sought in his mind for words"
to convey his passionate willingness to carry the conch against all odds.
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end, savagery "They understood only too well"
the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought.
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end, savagery "The sniggering of the" "The shivering,"
savages became a loud derisive jeer silvery, unreal laughter of the savages sprayed out
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end "You came sneaking up like"
a thief and stole Piggy's glasses!"
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end, "He pushed his hair up and gazed at the"
green and black mask before him, trying to remember what Jack looked like.
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end, Ralph to Jack "You're a beast"
and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!"
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end, Roger "Below him, Ralph was"
a shock of hair and Piggy a bag of fat.
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end, civilisation vs savagery "Which is better, law"
and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?"
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end, Piggy's death "The rock struck Piggy a"
glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.
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end, Piggy's death "Piggy's arms and legs"
twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed.
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end, deus ex machina
"We saw your smoke." "the naval officer" "jolly good show. Like Coral Island"
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end, Ralph "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.

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