Lord of the Flies
This is what the boys of the island call, "The Beast."
What is a parachutist/skydiver?
This character represents Civilization throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies.
Who is Ralph?
This land feature caused by the plane is symbolic in Chapters 1 and 9 and serves to personify the island.
What is the scar?
In the opening of of Chapter 7, the boys go looking for this.
What is the beast?
Symbolizes democracy and rules
What is the conch?
Who is the only person willing to admit that Simon’s death was murder?
Ralph
He is the first character the reader is introduced in Lord of the Flies.
Who is Ralph?
The boys cling to the rules and order from this experience.
What is their former life?
This treasure is used to call and maintain the order of meetings.
What is the conch?
Ralph gets carried away when the boys decide to do this in Chapter 7.
What is the pig hunt?
Symbolizes intelligence
What are Piggy's glasses?
What makes Ralph doubt his belief that “this is a good island”?
The litte'uns are scared
This character causes the death of Piggy by pushing a boulder.
Who is Roger?
This character claims that they are not savages and looks forward to punishing those who break the rules set forth by the boys.
Who is Jack?
During the course of Lord of the Flies, a littlun is killed by this natural force produced by the boys. (the littlun with the mark on his face)
What is a fire?
Jack does this with the pig's head after the pig hunt.
What is leaves it on a stick for the beast?
Symbolizes man's destructiveness
What is the scar on the land?
Before going to confront Jack’s group, Ralph’s group wishes
that they could clean up and look like they did when they arrived on the island
This character is the first to die on the island.
Who is the little boy with the scar on his face?
This characteristic increasingly shows the gradual slip from civilized behavior and civilization into savagery.
What is violence?
This emotion divides the boys.
What is fear?
This character's death symbolizes the death of logic and reason.
Who is Piggy?
Symbolizes hope and rescue
What is the fire?
Because of the time period setting, we can infer that the “beast from the air” is from what historical conflict
World War 2
This character discovers the conch in Chapter 1.
Who is Piggy?
Golding represents the descent into savagery with the appearance of the boys' this.
What is cleanliness?
Simon says, "..what I mean is...maybe [this is] only us."
What is the beast/evil?
"Ralph wept for the end of innocence" because of this.
What is the true nature of mankind?
What is the killing of two innocent characters?
Symbolizes anarchy and savagery
Who is Jack?
The way in which they select a leader best demonstrates which type of government?
Democracy