1. “Painted Faces and Long Hair”
Lord of the Flies
Chapters – 6
“Painted Faces and Long Hair”
“Beast From Water”
“Beast From Air”

5. Characters Ralph Piggy Sam’n’Eric Simon Jack Merridew Roger Maurice
Littl’uns (including Henry and Percival)

6. Key Events
Ship passes by, but the signal fire had been left unattended
Hunters kill their first pig
Jack breaks Piggy’s glasses
Ralph calls an assembly to re-establish rules
Boys talk of the beast and ghosts
Sam’n’Eric find a dead parachutist on the island
Jack and Ralph set out to investigate the parachutist/beast
Mutiny is brewing

7. Character Development
Roger and Maurice demonstrate their evil natures by destroying the littluns’ sandcastles; Roger goes further by throwing stones
Jack is still obsessed with hunting
Ralph finds Piggy “a bore…but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg”
Piggy’s glasses breaking: what does this symbolize? Or their ability to light the fire?

8. Character Development
Simon is the first to show real kindness to Piggy, by sharing his food
Jack feels powerful after providing meat
Ralph begins to recognize Piggy’s strength as an intellect
Piggy’s beliefs about the beast are practical; Ralph’s beliefs are confused; Simon’s beliefs are philosophical

9. Chapter Four
Why does Jack mask his face? “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.”
Why is Ralph so upset about the fire going out? What is it important for?

10. Chapter Four
The hunters are ecstatic about the killed pig: “He spread his arms wide. ‘You should have seen the blood!’” (Jack)

11. Chapter Five
Ralph and Jack grow apart as Ralph and Piggy grow closer, but Jack still obeys Ralph
“Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well’ we were happy…Then people started getting frightened.” (Ralph)

12. Chapter Six Sam’n’Eric misread the “sign…from the world of grown-ups”
Ralph’s first response to Sam’n’Eric’s panic is to get Piggy—he is relying on him now
Jack becomes increasingly hostile to Piggy, and by Chapter Six is willfully opposing Ralph’s rules
Jack accompanying Ralph to the “beast”: is this sympathy? Decency? Jealousy?

13. Motifs Civilization vs. Anarchy
Piggy: “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Savages? What’s grown-ups going to think? Going off—hunting pigs—letting fires out—and now [ghosts]!”
Ralph: “Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!”
The boys’ society is beginning to break down, possibly into two camps: Ralph’s and Jack’s

14. Motifs
Leadership
Ralph and Jack continue to clash, especially over what the boys’ priorities should be
Of Ralph, Piggy, and Jack: “Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.”
Ralph: “The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise.” “Only I can’t think. Not like Piggy.” “Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values.” “Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize it in another.”

15. Leadership
Ralph: “If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” Insightful comment—a good leader knows not to test his subjects’ loyalty if there’s a good chance they won’t respond, as that will effectively end his lealdership
Ralph is becoming a wiser, stronger leader, though he is competing with Jack for the boys’ loyalty: “with a violent swing to Ralph’s side [from Jack’s side], the crisis passed.”

16. Motifs The darkness within people
Roger and Maurice destroy the sandcastles, although “Maurice still felt the unease of wrong-doing”
Roger throws stones at Henry
Henry “became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them.”
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in.”

17. Motifs The loss of innocence
The boys are dealing with grown-up issues: survival, hunting, comforting smaller boys, mental instabilities, etc.
Grown-ups are still seen as saviours to idolize (despite what we know adults are really like)
Percival recites his name and address as a comforting technique, but it fails to help him by the end of Chapter Five

18. Final Thoughts What is the “beast”?
Jack: “a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal…If there were a beast I’d have seen it. Be frightened because you’re like that—but there is no beast in the forest.”
Piggy: “I know there ain’t no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn’t no fear, either…Unless we get frightened of people.”
Phil: “I saw something big and horrid moving in the trees.” (But it was Simon)

19. What is the “beast”? Percival says the beast comes out of the sea
The dead parachutist
Simon: “‘Maybe…there is a beast…What I mean is…maybe it’s only us.’…Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.” Why does he say this? What is man’s “illness”?
“However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.”

20. Final Thoughts How is fear affecting the boys?
Simon is going into the jungle at night—why?
Last two lines, after Ralph issues an order: “Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering. Jack led the way down the rock and across the bridge.”