Characters
What is Piggy's real name?
We are never told it as the boys never ask for it, which shows the lack of interest they have in him right from the start.
Finish this quote: 'Man produces evil like...
... a bee produces honey.
What is the word (technique) when the island is used by Golding as a smaller version of wider society?
Microcosm.
How is costume and colour used for effect in the party scene?
All the members of the Coagula Project are wearing something red to unite them. Rose has red stripes which is also symbolic of bars trapping Chris. Chris is wearing blue - odd one out. Also links to colours of the confederacy and the unionists and the American Confederate flag.
What is the name of the 'experiment' that places a white person's brain in a black person's body?
The Coagula Project
What does TSA stand for (that Rod works for)
Transportation Security Administration
What does Dean say he has growing in the basement?
Black mould.
What are the names of Jack and Ralph's different 'bases' on the island?
Jack - Castle Rock.
Ralph - The Platform.
What does the destruction of the conch symbolise?
The end of civilised moral behaviour/democratic power. The end of law and order.
Name 2 other films/novels that use the white saviour trope,
Avatar, Blind Side, The Help, The Green Book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dances with Wolves, Blood Diamond, Gran Torino, Freedom Writers, 12 Years a Slave, amongst others.
What is the name of Dean Armitage's father whose brain is in the groundsman's body?
Roman Armitage
Jack cannot initially kill a pig due to "enormity of ....." Finish the quote.
....the knife descending and cutting into living flesh."
Explain two significant things about the setting of the Armitage house.
It's isolated.
It resembles a colonial style mansion.
Give an example of foreshadowing in the novel 'LOTF'.
Roger throwing stones at the boys on the beach foreshadows him rolling the boulder which kills Piggy.
The accidental fire at the start of the novel foreshadows the fire started deliberately at the end to smoke out Ralph. The killing of the pigs foreshadows the killing of Piggy.
What year was 'LOTF' published?
1954
What is the full name of the little boy in 'LOTF' who recites his full name early in the novel, but cannot remember his name when the naval captain asks him at the end of the book?
Percival Wemys Madison.
Finish this quote: "The movie is a lot of things. It's definitely about the way America deals with race,...."
"...and the ideas that racism is a demon; an American monster." (Peele)
What is ironic about the end of the novel?
The boys are rescued - their war is over. But the adult world that they are returning to is still at war.
The fire that was set to kill Ralph is actually what rescues them.
What is 'The Sunken Place' a metaphor for?
The silencing of African Americans. Their voicelessness and powerlessness and lack of agency in a white dominated society.
What year was 'Get Out' released?
2017
What is the name of Chris/Rod's friend that goes missing and what is his name when Chris sees him at the house?
Andre
Logan
Finish this quote: "Ralph wept for the end of ...."
"...innocence, for the darkness of man's heart and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."
What is the song that Rose is listening to at the end of the film in her bedroom?
I've had the time of my life.
What is the name of the African 'tribal/spooky' music played at the start of 'Get Out'?
Sikiliza Kwa Wahenga" ( translated as, 'listen to the elders')
Why are the huts (and the state of them) important in the novel? What do they symbolise?
Civilised society - first one is built properly. The next one is half built. As they become less structured and sound, it reflects the boys' society falling apart.