Roger Flashcards
(12 cards)
PEE 1
“Let’s have a vote”
“Gloomily” 🛥🔭
They may “Never be rescued”
PEE 2 part 1
“Dirty and filthy”
“Considerably longer”👦🏻➡️🧔🏻♀️
“Shock of black hair … made what seemed at first an unsocial remoteness into something more forbidding”
PEE 2 part 2
“Roger remained watching the littluns”
“Picked up a stone, aimed & threw it at Henry - threw to miss”
“Round the squatting child was the protection of parents & school & policemen & the law.”
PEE 3
“When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin.”
“Began to push until he was leaning his whole weight … the terrifying squealing became a high-pitched scream.”
PEE 4 part 1
“Proper chief”
“going to beat Wilfred”
“Didn’t say why”
“Roger recieved the news as an illumination”
PEE 4 part 2
“Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the level”
“Struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee … the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments”
PEE 5
“You got to go for your own good”
“You don’t know Roger, he’s a terror”
“Roger sharpened a stick at both ends”
Point 1
At the start of the novel, Roger, like the rest is civilised, innocent and longing to return to the structure of society
Point 2
As the novel progresses, though, we start to see a change in Roger’s appearance as Golding foreshadows what he’s capable of.
Point 3
The breakdown of civilisation amongst the boys becomes clear as they spend more time without rules & Roger engages in increasingly violent behaviour
Point 4
For the first time, Golding reveals just how dangerous Roger is and foreshadows that Roger will eventually surpass even Jack’s violence.
Point 5
In the final chapter, we witness Ralph fleeing for his life and we see that Roger’s unleashed evil knows no limits.
