Plot
What brings the boys to the island?
A plane crash following an evacuation attempt.
What does the conch represent?
Order, civilization, law, government
Simon's death represents if the book is a Biblical allegory?
The Crucifixion of Jesus
What does Simon's death prove?
The Lord of the Flies was correct: The beast is inside all of mankind.
What is the difference between mood and tone?
Mood is the feeling that the reader gets and this can change. Tone stays the same and is the attitude the writer has about a topic.
What causes Ralph to become angry with Jack and the hunters?
A ship sails by, but the fire is out because everyone is hunting.
Piggy's specs represent what?
Vision for the future, reason, logic
Who is Jack in a historical allegory?
Hitler
What is ironic about the choir boys first appearing in their school uniforms with the silver cross emblem and in two neat lines?
It would be expected that these boys would be well-behaved and uphold Christian values but they are the first to go savage.
What is diction?
Who discovers the truth about the beast and the Lord of the Flies?
Simon
Why is it important that the shelters are described as rickety?
They represent civilization and show how the boys cannot come together to make civilization work.
View the story as a psychoanalytical allegory. Explain what Piggy's death represents.
Piggy's death represents a person losing their ability to reason or think logically.
This allows jealousy and anger (Jack) a chance to destroy that person.
In the story, Ralph begins by believing his dad will rescue him, Simon tells Ralph he believes Ralph will be rescued, and then the fire, once a representation of hope and now a product of anger, burns the island and leads to an actual rescue. What theme does this reveal?
Faith and hope, above logic and goodness, is necessary for human survival.
The writer describes the murder of Simon as the following: "the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore." What does this diction show?
The boys are animal or beast-like.
How many deaths are there total?
3- The child with the mulberry birthmark, Simon, and Piggy
Why is it so symbolically terrible that the kids are using the bathroom near the river and lagoon?
These places represent the River Jordan where they are baptized and they are contaminating them.
What 21st-century Disney film shares similar psychoanalytical elements to the book?
Inside Out
What is ironic about Piggy being unable to pick up on the signs from Ralph that he is unwanted?
Piggy is supposed to be the smartest person on the island, but he doesn't understand social cues.
What is foreshadowed when Simon says, "You'll get back all right?"
Simon does not include himself or the others, foreshadowing that he and others would die. If we look even closer, we can read this as foreshadowing the fact that only Ralph will be able to leave the island mentally as he is the only one who doesn't join Jack in the end. All the others may literally go home, but their humanity was lost on the island.
He hunts him and tries to smoke him out with a fire.
What does the island represent?
A microcosm or the Garden of Eden or the brain
In a social allegory, what do the boys represent?
The different social classes (low, middle, high).
Why is it ironic that the boys talk about being from a civilized country?
Their country is at war, doing the same things the boys are doing but with more technology.
Based on the events, themes, and diction, what is William Golding's tone towards civilization?
Civilization and everything born out of it will eventually fail because of the darkness inside of mankind.