Once Upon a Plot Line...
True or false: Jack kills a pig
False
Identify who says the following quote:
"If you're hunting sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if you're not hunting, but being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle."
Jack
How has Jack's appearance changed at the beginning of chapter 3?
His hair is longer, he's sunburned, his clothes are basically gone, covered in dirt.
True or false, this passage contains an example of alliteration:
The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars."
True
How many shelters do Simon and Ralph manage to build?
3
"Meetings. Don't we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk."
Ralph
What are Ralph's feelings on the meetings?
They are becoming increasingly unproductive.
This passage shows an example of what literary device?
He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth.
simile
Where did Simon go when he "buzzed off"?
A secluded clearing in the woods.
Identify who says the following quote:
"They talk and scream. The littluns. Even some of the others. As if...As if this wasn't a good island."
Ralph
There are two reasons why Ralph thinks it is really important to have shelter. What are they?
1. If it rains, they will be dry in the shelters 2. It will comfort the littluns and make them feel protected against the "snake-thing".
Which literary device is being used in this passage?
"They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate."
Metaphor
What do the litluns keep dreaming of?
The "beastie"
Which character is this passage describing?
He was a small, skinny boy, his chin pointed, and his eyes so bright they had deceived ----- into thinking him delightfully gay and wicked. The coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down, almost concealing a low, broad forehead.
Simon
What does Ralph accuse Jack of liking? Why does Ralph view this as a problem?
Hunting
Jack likes hunting, therefore it's not work for him and he's not contributing as much to the order of things.
Name the chapter 3 vocab word that matches this definition:
Natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs.
Vicissitude
What were the other hunters, besides Jack, doing instead of working?
Swimming
Which character's perspective is this passage from?
He squatted down, parted the leaves, and looked out into the clearing. Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air.
Simon
In chapter 3 we follow both Jack and Simon into the jungle. How do their experiences differ?
Jack's experience= tense, threatening atmosphere
Simon's experience= tranquil, peaceful
Identify the literary device that Golding uses here between Ralph and Jack...
"If I could only get a pig!"
"I'll come back and work on the shelter."
Juxtaposition