Plot
The humped figure that scares Samneric away from the signal fire
the parachutist
The novel’s protagonist, the twelve-year-old English boy who is elected leader of the group of boys marooned on the island. _______ attempts to coordinate the boys’ efforts to build a miniature civilization on the island until they can be rescued. ______ represents human beings’ civilizing instinct, as opposed to the savage instinct that Jack embodies.
Ralph
Who says: "Honest, Ralph, you'd better go. . . You got to go because it's not safe. . . You got to go for your own good. They hate you, Ralph. They're going to do you."
samneric
Represents democracy and rules
Conch shell
He is described in the following passage: "It was an accident . . . that's what it was. An Accident. . . . Coming in the dark, he hadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it."
Simon
The novel’s antagonist, one of the older boys stranded on the island. _____ becomes the leader of the hunters but longs for total power and becomes increasingly wild, barbaric, and cruel as the novel progresses.
Jack
The name given to the sow’s head that Jack’s gang impales on a stake and erects in the forest as an offering to the “beast.”
Lord of the Flies
He says: "We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something?"
The Naval Officer
A shy, sensitive boy in the group. ________, in some ways the only naturally “good” character on the island, behaves kindly toward the younger boys and is willing to work for the good of their community. Moreover, because his motivation is rooted in his deep feeling of connectedness to nature, _______ is the only character whose sense of morality does not seem to have been imposed by society. ______ represents a kind of natural goodness
Simon
What is the purpose of "a stick sharpened at both ends"?
To put Ralph's head on a stick
Symbolizes man's inner fear of the unknown
the beast
How does the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark die?
He dies in an uncontrolled fire
Ralph’s “lieutenant.” A whiny, intellectual boy, ______’s inventiveness frequently leads to innovation, such as the makeshift sundial that the boys use to tell time. _________ represents the scientific, rational side of civilization
Piggy
Character who described Jack as a little red-headed boy
The Naval Officer
The item desired by the savages during the raid
Piggy's Glasses
The character who tells Simon he is going to have some fun on this island
The Lord of the Flies
Jack’s “lieutenant.” A sadistic, cruel older boy who brutalizes the littluns and eventually murders Piggy by rolling a boulder onto him.
Roger
He says the following: "I'm going to go to him with this conch in my hands. I'm going to hold it out. Look, I'm goin' to say, you're stronger than I am and you haven't got asthma. You can see, I'm goin' to say, and with both eyes. But I don't ask you to be a sport, I'll say, not because you're strong, but because what's right's right.
Piggy
The first 'littlun' to tell the boys about the beastie
the boy with the mulberry birthmark
symbolizes totalitarianism
Jack's Knife