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“Nobody knows where we are…Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there”

Piggy

Who first sees the beast, and how does he die?

The boy with the birthmark; he dies in the fire

After wishing for an adult presence, what is sent to the island?

The parachutist

“Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to—ought to die before we let the fire out?”

Ralph

“…I just think you’ll get back all right”

Simon

Discuss the symbolism of the conch shell.

Order, Civilization

What are the connotations that go with fire? Why?

Hope, Life, Signal, Rescue Death, Hell, Damnation

In terms of political allegory, what does Piggy represent?

The Scientific side of society, the need for reason, logic, and explanations

The island in the novel is a microcosm for what larger macrocosm?

Europe, WWII

The novel alludes to what other famous Scottish novel about a group of shipwrecked boys?

Coral Island

“What intelligence had been shown was traceable to____”

Piggy

“The most obvious leader was____”

Jack

“The ____ was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.”

Mask

“However, Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a ____ at once heroic and sick.”

Human

“There was the throb and stamp of a ____ ____.”

Single Organism

Who found the conch?

Ralph and/or Piggy

He is the only one who helps Ralph build all three shelters.

Simon

Who kills Piggy and how did he do it?

Roger. He releases a boulder off of the top of the Castle Rock.

Who betrays Ralph’s hiding place and why?

The twins (Sam and Eric). They are afraid of Jack and Roger.

What one person, other than the littluns, actively states a belief in the beast?

Simon

How do the boys plan to be rescued?

Smoke from a signal fire

What ‘compulsion’ consumes Jack?

The need to hunt/kill

Through what vehicle does the Beast/Lord of the Flies speak to Simon.

The pig head

What punishment does the tribe have in store for Ralph? How do you know?

Kill him and put his head on a stick sharpened at both ends Kill him and put his head on a stick sharpened at both ends. This is the same thing they did with the pig head.

How are the boys rescued?

A Navy ship