Characters
obsessed with hunting
Who is Jack?
Define a symbol.
What is an object that represents an idea or specific emotion?
The boys reference several books like Coral Island and Treasure Island. These are examples of …
What are allusions?
He thinks that he deserves to be chief because he's "chapter chorister and head boy. [He]can sing C sharp."
Who is Jack?
This person shares his meat with Piggy.
Who is Simon?
"what intelligence had been shown was traceable to __________________________"
Who is Piggy?
What does Jack symbolize?
What is savagery, dictatorship, totalitarian government?
A blur of sunlight was crawling across his hair. This is an example of...
What is personification?
"There’s another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire.”
Who said it? How is it significant?
Who is Ralph?
The little boy says he has seen this on the island.
What is the beastie?
___________________found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.
Who is Simon?
What do Piggy's specs symbolize?
What is intelligence, scientific thought, reason?
“a bird… flashed upwards with a witch-like cry” (Golding 1).
This is an example of....
This foreshadows...
What is a simile?
"He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling"
Who is being described? How is it important?
Who is Jack? It foreshadows his descent into savagery.
The spot where the plane landed is called....
What is the scar?
He crawls into a shelter and "stays there for two days, talking, singing, and crying, till they thought him batty and were faintly amused. Ever since then he had been peaked, red-eyed, and miserable; a littleun who played and cried often"
Who is Percival?
What does the "beastie" symbolize?
What is fear?
1. Lord of the Flies is an allegory because it has _______________________________
and ______________________________
It has a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning and the characters symbolize abstract ideas.
"Yet there was 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.”
Which theme is represented in these quotes?
What is civilization versus savagery?
These are the vines that grow all over the island...
They symbolize...
What are creepers?
What is evil?
"That little 'un that had a mark on his face-where is-he now? I tell you I don't see him."
Who said it?
Who is Piggy?
"the mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"
1. Identify the symbol.
2. Explain what it symbolizes.
What is the mask?
What is savagery?
"They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate."
This is an example of....
How is it significant?
What is a metaphor?
What are the three different THEMES represented in the chapter titles below:
Ch. 1 “The Sound of the Shell” = ?
Ch. 3 “Huts on the Beach” = ?
Ch. 4 “Painted Faces and Long Hair” = ?
Ch. 1 “The Sound of the Shell” = Rules/Order
Ch. 3 “Huts on the Beach” = Civilization
Ch. 4 “Painted Faces and Long Hair” = Savagery/Chaos
What specific physical characteristic distinguishes the missing boy from the other littleuns?
What is a mulberry birthmark on his face?