Characters
He is elected leader at the beginning of the novel.
What is Ralph?
How do the boys end up on the island?
What is their plane crashes during an evacuation?
“We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.”
Who is Jack?
This object is used to call assemblies and symbolizes order.
What is the conch shell?
What causes Piggy’s death?
What is Roger pushing a boulder on him?
This character becomes obsessed with hunting and takes control of a tribe.
What is Jack?
What do the boys use to start fires?
What is Piggy’s glasses?
This character "wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart..."
Who is Ralph?
This animal’s head is mounted on a stick and represents evil.
What is the Lord of the Flies?
How does Simon die?
What is he is mistaken for the beast and beaten to death?
He is overweight, asthmatic, and often ignored, but the most logical of the group.
Who is Piggy?
After Jack forms his own tribe, where do they set up their new camp?
What is Castle Rock?
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.”
Who is Simon?
What does the signal fire symbolize?
What is hope or connection to civilization?
Who dies first in the novel?
Who is the boy with the birthmark?
This character has a natural moral compass and talks to the “Lord of the Flies.”
What is Simon?
What do the boys mistake as a beast?
What is the dead parachutist?
“Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Who is Piggy?
The boys painting their faces symbolizes what transformation?
What is the loss of identity or descent into savagery?
What do the boys do with the sharpened stick after they killed the pig?
What is place the pig’s head on it?
This boy has sadistic tendencies throughout the novel.
Who is Roger?
What event finally leads to their rescue?
What is the massive fire Jack’s tribe sets to hunt Ralph?
“Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!”
Who is the Lord of the Flies (or the pig’s head)?
What does the destruction of the conch symbolize?
What is the complete collapse of civilization and order?
What is the boys’ chant during their frenzied dances that often precedes violence?
What is “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”?