Characters
Golding frequently uses the littluns to show the breakdown of societal memory. What is the full name and home address that Percival Wemys Madison desperately recites until he completely forgets it at the end of the novel?
What is Percival Wemys Madison, The Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony.
The "Scar" is a massive symbol in the book representing man's destructive impact on nature. What exactly physically created the scar on the island?
What is the plane crash
Right before his brutal death, Piggy screams his final words to the savages. What is the exact question he asks them regarding the choice between law and hunting?
What is "Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?" (Also accept: "Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?")
Golding meticulously describes the topography of the island. What specific shape does he explicitly use to describe the overall layout of the island in Chapter 1?
What is a roughly boat shape
In Chapter 8, Jack's tribe brutally hunts down a sow that is nursing her piglets. Golding describes this event with intense, disturbing imagery as the boys chase the wounded pig through the forest. Into what specific type of natural landscape feature does the sow desperately run right before she is cornered and slaughtered by the boys?
What is a fringe of open glades. Accepts: glade, flower glade, flower garden, flower meadow.
While Ralph represents civilization and Jack represents savagery, this character explicitly represents the scientific, rational, and intellectual aspects of humanity, which are ultimately crushed by the island's chaos.
Who is Piggy
Found in the lagoon, this object initially symbolizes democracy, rules, and the right to speak during assemblies.
What is the conch shell
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."
Who is Jack
This specific geographical feature of the island is where the boys initially gather, establish their assembly, and build their first, fragile shelters.
What is the platform/beach
This accidental tragedy occurs during the very first attempt to light a signal fire on the mountain, serving as the boys' first real taste of chaos.
What is the death of the boy with the mulberry colored birthmark. Accepts: forest fire
This choir boy is introduced as "keeping to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy," foreshadowing his evolution into the island’s sadistic executioner.
Who is Roger
This object is the physical manifestation of the "Lord of the Flies" itself, acting as a direct offering to the beast.
What is the pig's head on a stick
"Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's only us."
Who is Simon
This dark, rocky stronghold at the side of the island features a narrow stone bridge and becomes the heavily fortified headquarters for Jack’s tribe.
What is castle rock
This event acts as the ultimate turning point of the novel, happening during a chaotic, storm-fueled ritual dance where a boy is mistaken for the beast.
What is the murder of Simon
This pair of twins loses their individual identities entirely by the end of the novel, their names literally merging into a single entity in the text.
Who is Samneric
These items are the only tool the boys have to create fire, making them the most valuable piece of technology on the island.
What are piggy's spectacles. Accepts: glasses
"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!"
Who is the Lord of the Flies(the Pig Head)
This is the specific location on the island where the "beast from air" lands, prompting the terrifying nighttime expedition by Ralph, Jack, and Roger.
What is the mountaintop
This object is deliberately dropped by Roger from a cliff, simultaneously killing Piggy and shattering the last remaining symbol of democratic order.
What is a massive boulder
This character is the only boy on the island who never fully assimilates into either Jack’s faction or Ralph’s civilized order, instead choosing to retreat into a secluded cabin of vines to contemplate the nature of the beast.
Who is Simon
This object represents the intrusion of the adult world's violent nature onto the island, literally falling from the sky after a dogfight.
What is the dead parachutist
"I should have thought that a pack of British boys—you’re all British, aren’t you?—would have been able to put up a better show than that."
Who is the naval officer
When Ralph describes the island’s geometry, he notes that the open sea side is terrifyingly different from the lagoon side. What does he call the brutal, relentless feature of the open ocean that makes rescue seem impossible?
What is the ocean/cliff side. Also accepts: what is the breathing or leviathan movement of the deep sea
During the chaotic final hunt for Ralph, Jack’s tribe resorts to this desperate tactic to flush him out of hiding, inadvertently causing their ultimate rescue.
What is setting the entire island on fire