Characters
This boy is elected leader at the beginning of the novel.
Who is Ralph?
This item is used to call meetings and represents order and civilization.
What is the conch shell?
At the beginning of the story, the boys arrive on the island after this happens.
What is a plane crash?
The novel shows what happens when rules and authority disappear.
What is the theme of civilization vs. savagery?
The boys keep a signal fire on the mountain so that passing ships might see the smoke and rescue them.
What is True
This character represents intelligence and reason and owns the glasses used to start fires.
Who is Piggy?
Piggy uses this object to help him see and it becomes important for starting the fire.
What are Piggy’s glasses?
Jack and his hunters paint their faces before doing this activity.
What is hunting pigs?
Jack and his hunters paint their faces and hunt, showing a shift toward this.
What is savagery
Jack is the first boy elected leader of the group.
What is false
This choir leader becomes obsessed with hunting and eventually leads his own tribe.
Who is Jack?
This object represents the boys’ hope of rescue.
What is the signal fire?
During a storm and frenzied dance, the boys mistakenly kill this character.
Who is Simon?
The fight between Ralph and Jack represents the struggle between these two forces on the island.
What are civilization and savagery?
Whenever Piggy gets nervous, he polishes his glasses
What is true
This quiet boy often goes off alone and is the first to realize the “beast” is not real.
Who is Simon?
This pig’s head on a stick becomes a symbol of the evil inside the boys.
What is the Lord of the Flies?
Roger pushes a large rock that kills this character.
Who is Piggy?
The boys try to keep the signal fire going to be rescued, showing their desire to maintain this.
What is civilization
Simon is killed by the naval officer.
A pair of twins closely allied with Ralph. These two are always together, and the other boys often treat them as a single entity, calling them. At the end of the novel, they fall victim to Jack’s manipulation and coercion.
Who is SamnEric
The destruction of this object represents the complete loss of order on the island.
What is the conch shell?
At the end of the novel, the boys are rescued when this person arrives on the island.
Who is a naval officer?
The destruction of the conch, Piggy’s death, and the frenzied hunt at the end symbolize the total victory of this over the rules and order the boys tried to keep.
What is savagery?
The “beast” is actually a living creature on the island.
What is false