Lord of the Flies
This is what the boys of the island initially call, "The Beast."
What is a parachutist/skydiver?
These characters represents Civilization throughout the novel, Lord of the Flies.
Who are Ralph and Piggy?
This word is symbolic in Chapters 1 and describes where the plane crashed.
What is the scar?
In the opening of of Chapter 7, the boys go looking for this.
What is the beast?
He is the first character the reader is introduced in Lord of the Flies.
Who is Ralph?
What does the boys' increasing levels of violence show?
Their gradual slip from civilization and into savagery.
This treasure is used to call and maintain the order of meetings.
What is the conch?
What does the breaking of the conch symbolize?
It represents the complete loss of civility and order in the group.
Gentle, quiet, and murdered by the mob of boys
Who is Simon?
What does Golding use to represent/show the ongoing change of the boys in the novel?
He uses their appearance to represent their descent into savagery. He uses cleanliness, clothing, hair, and the use of paint and masks to show this.
How does Jack treat the boys when the first voice their concerns about the "beast"?
He is dismissive and does not take them seriously
Jack does this with the pig's head after the pig hunt.
What is leaves it on a stick for the beast?
This character is the first to die on the island.
Who is the little boy with the scar on his face?
What are William Golding's views on human nature?
Without law-and-order humans turn evil; fear and chaos create evil. Humans are inherently evil.
What happens when the boys first build a fire?
They get carried away and it gets out of control. It burns up loads of firewood and a littlun goes missing.
What does Piggy's death symbolize?
The death of intelligence/logic/reason
This character discovers the conch in Chapter 1.
Who is Piggy?
This represents the devil or evil inside us.
What is The Lord of the Flies?
Simon says, "..what I mean is...maybe [this is] only us."
What is the beast/evil?
How do the boys try to kill Ralph at the end of the novel?
They light the forest on fire and try to smoke him out so that they can put his body on a stake.