Characters
Plot
Symbols
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
Walking down the path back to the platform to call an assembly, Ralph had to "adjust his values," and appreciate that Piggy had this trait:
What is thinking?
100
After the terrible experience of missing a chance at rescue, and of Jack breaking Piggy's glasses, Ralph calls a serious assembly. He addresses housekeeping things like helping with shelters, where to go to the bathroom and where to cook. Then he addresses these two main issues
What are the keeping the signal fire going and addressing fear?
100
"The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!" "Who cares?" Ralph summoned his wits. "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" But Jack was shouting against him, "Bollocks to the rules!" What is symbolically happening in this excerpt?
What is the breaking up of civilization?
100
Etiquette
What is decorum?
100
Simon recognized there was not a physical beast. He had difficulty believing that a beast with claws was not fast enough to catch Samneric. When he thought of the beast, he had a picture of this
What is a human at once heroic and sick (he understood the beast is in all of us)
200
A littlun, Phil, says he had a terrible dream about fighting the "twisty things in the trees." But when he awoke and went outside, he saw something walking in among the trees. The thing walking about was this person
Who is Simon?
200
Jack leads the breaks the assembly up while Ralph is still holding it by doing this
What is whipping the assembly into a frenzy to hunt and kill the beast?
200
Piggy urges Ralph to blow the conch; to get the assembly back in order. Ralph decides against it because if he blows it and they don't come back, "we've had it." He understood the symbolism of the conch. Be says they will turn into these if they don't respond to the conch.
What are animals?
200
expressing contempt or ridicule
What is derisive?
200
Ralph says to the assembly, "Things are breaking up. I don't understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then - then people started" doing this:
What is getting frightened?
300
This littlun also spoke at the assembly. As he introduced himself, including his home address, which seemed to open a "spring of sorrow." He also said that the beast comes out of the sea.
Who is Percival?
300
Piggy says this will happen if Ralph stands down as chief
What is Jack will hurt Piggy
300
"...a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it. This sign symbolized this
What is the adult world and its inability to maintain peace?
300
a sculpture or model of a person
What is effigy?
300
As the group approaches the castle rock in their hunt for the beast. Everyone was scared, even Jack. "Something deep in Ralph spoke for him. 'I'm chief. I'll go. Don't argue.'" This is an example of how deep inside, Ralph thinks from this part of the psyche
What is the superego
400
This character's father said that, "Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet...there's things...squids--that are hundreds of yards long and eat whales whole."
Who is Maurice?
400
Sam and Eric, while tending the fire, see the dead parachutist in the night, and think it is the beast. They think the beast is chasing them when this happens
What is the wind fills the parachute and causes the pilot to be raised up.
400
After Sam and Eric came and told everyone they actually saw the beast, Ralph had them wake everyone to call an assembly. He didn't even have to blow the conch, but he did this to call everyone to order
What is hold the conch up?
400
a passionate expression of grief or sorrow
What is lament?
400
In the assembly after Samneric come with their story of seeing the beast, Ralph uses this newly appreciated skill in planning the hunt. He considered possibilities, such as looking after the littluns, and the fact that the beast doesn't leave tracks. This new found skill is
What is thinking?
500
This character is "inarticulate in his ability to express mankind's essential illness."
Who is Simon?
500
When Ralph and then Jack explore the castle rock in their hunt for the beast, Jack notices something. "Shove a palm trunk under that and if an enemy came-look!" A hundred feet below them was the narrow causeway, and the stony ground... This foreshadows this future event
What is Roger launching the boulder that kills Piggy?
500
Jack is exulting in what a great fort the castle rock would be, while Ralph looks longingly at the mountain "There's no signal now. Nothing to show." "You're nuts on the signal." The signal fire is symbolic of hope for rescue; Jack hoping something different
What is to live on the island, to have his own little kingdom.
500
involve (someone) deeply in an argument, conflict, or difficult situation
What is embroil?
500
In the back and forth between him and Jack, Ralph turned the assembly, "with a violent swing" back to his side by asking this question
What is "don't any of you want to be rescued?"
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