Characters
Jack's Last name.
What is Merridew?
The shell that is used to call the boys together for meetings.
What is the conch?
What the boys mostly eat when they first arrive on the island.
What is fruit?
The name of the long crash mark made by the plane.
What is "the scar"?
The narrative point of view in the novel.
What is third-person omniscient?
Becomes the chief of the boys.
Who is Ralph?
What Piggy calls his glasses.
What are specs?
The way that the boys try to attract ships for rescue.
What is a signal fire on the mountain?
The reason the boys are on the island to begin with.
What is their plane crashed/ was shot down during a nuclear war evacuation?
An example of foreshadowing early in the story.
Multiple options; one is: What is the uncontrolled signal fire foreshadows future chaos and destruction.
The quiet, mysterious boy who often watches others.
Who is Roger?
The important object that helps the boys start the signal fire.
What are Piggy's glasses?
The way the boys light the first fire on the mountain
What is using the sun and Piggy's glasses?
The project Ralph and Simon are trying to complete on the beach.
What is building shelter or huts?
Golding often contrasts these two characters to represent innocence versus aggression.
Who are Simon and Jack?
The character that faints in the sand early in the story
Who is Simon?
The reason the conch is important to the boys' society.
What is it gives them the right to speak and represents order and authority?
After the boys lose control of their first signal fire, this is the likely fate of the littlun with the mulberry-coloured birthmark.
What is that he dies in the fire?
The reason the littluns are frightened at the meeting in chapter 2.
What is they believe there is a beast on the island?
Imagery that makes Simon appear kind or connected to nature.
What is he helps the littluns gather fruit and spends time peacefully in the forest?
The character that struggles with asthma and often tries to contribute ideas.
Who is Piggy?
A hollow shell of ivory or wood, struck by the fingers to make a clicking sound.
What is a castanet?
The jobs that Simon, Ralph, and Jack are doing by chapter 3.
What is Ralph and Simon are working on building shelters for the group, while Jack is focused on hunting pigs?
The reason Ralph becomes frustrated with the other boys' approach to survival.
What is most of the boys are ignoring their responsibilities lie building shelters or maintaining the fire?
Golding contrasts calm natural imagery around Simon with violent hunting imagery around Jack to emphasize this central theme of the novel.
What is the conflict between good and evil in human nature?