Chapters 1-2
The boys evacuate during war and their plane goes down in this location.
What is: The Island
One characters main role is to build shelters, the other hunts pigs.
Who is: Ralph and Jack
This character says there isn’t a beast – unless you mean people.
Who is: Simon
This character undercuts Ralph by calling a vote, storming off when he loses, and forming a new tribe with promises of meat and protection.
Who is: Jack
This fire can mean hope and rescue—or destruction, depending on who controls it (especially in Chapter 12). This is an example of a literary device.
What is: Symbolism
This objects first purpose is to gather the boys and create a meeting.
What is: The Conch
These structures are meant to protect the boys from weather and fear.
What are: Shelters
The boys mistake this for a beast in the mountains.
What is: The Dead Parachutist
The chapter title “Gift for the Darkness” refers to placing this on a stick as an offering to the beast.
What is: A dead pig’s head or The Lord of the Flies
This frees boys from shame, letting them act without conscience.
What is: The mask
This character wins the election partly because he called everybody with the conch and seemed the most “chief-like”.
Who is: Ralph
This specific fear arises in chapter 2 and causes the boys to start doubting the island is good.
What is: Fear of the beast
In Chapter 7, Ralph becomes caught up in the excitement of the hunt and does this for the first time, revealing that even he is vulnerable to the pull of savagery.
What is: Wounding a pig with a spear
This character rules like a dictator—through fear, punishment, and ritual—demanding loyalty and meat-fueled feasts.
Who is: Jack
“We’ve got to make smoke up there—or die” displays this literary device
Hyperbole
From the start, this is Ralph’s primary strategy for getting off the island.
What is: Start a signal fire
This character tosses stones near Henry but deliberately misses because the “taboo of the old life” still restrains him.
Who is: Roger
We know the “beast from the air” is a dead parachutist but the boys don’t—classic ________ irony.
What is: Dramatic
After Simon’s death, this characters calls it murder; this character tries to rationalize it as an accident.
Who is: Ralph and Piggy
“This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch” displays this literary device
What is: simile
In chapter 2, the fire gets out of control and this character goes missing.
Who is: The boy with the mulberry birthmark
This chapter title, “Painted Faces and Long Hair,” signals growing savagery and the shedding of civilized identity.
What is: Chapter 4
The boys reenact hunting a pig and actually hurt roger. This foreshadows-
What is: Future violence and brutality
Stealing these instead of the conch shows power has shifted from democratic order to brute force and control of fire.
What is: Piggy’s glasses
“You’ll get back all right” displays this literary device.
What is: Foreshadowing