1. Lord of the Flies Daily Journals

2. October 4
What is the difference (if any) between following your morals and following legal laws? Provide an example to explain your argument. Your example MAY NOT be one of the examples presented in the Kohlberg dilemmas.

3. October 5
Is it possible to achieve true equality among individuals in a society? Provide an example to support your argument.

4. October 7
What is your first impression of Ralph? Jack? Piggy? Give specific reasons.

5. October 10
What does the following quote show about Piggy’s role in the novel?
“Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.”

6. October 11
What does Simon represent in the novel? What role will he play?

7. October 12
Define paradise.

8. October 13 What is the significance of the following quote?
“In his other life, Maurice had received chastisement for filling a younger eye with sand. Now, though, there was no parent to let fall a heavy hand, but Maurice still felt the unease of wrongdoing.”

9. October 17
After someone mentions the existence of ghosts, Piggy stands up and says:
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think? Going off—hunting pigs—letting fires out—and now!”
What is the significance of this quote?

10. October 18
What does bullying reveal about human nature?

11. October 20
How would you define innocence?

12. October 21
Do you think the story would be better if we did not know what the “beast” really was?

13. October 24
What do you think the Lord of the Flies represents? (the figure, not the title of the book)

14. October 27
After reading chapter 9, how have your feelings towards Jack, Ralph, and Piggy changed (if at all)? Why?

15. October 28 Ralph says, “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home.”
What is the significance of this quote?