Characters
Themes
Lord of the Flies 1-6
Lord of the Flies 7-12
Symbols
100

What comes to the island that everyone thinks is a beast

dead parachutist

100

What Ralph represents in the novel

Civilization 

order

100

Character we see first in the story

Ralph

100

What the boys go looking for at the start of chapter 7

The beast

100

What Lord of the Flies is symbolic of

Man's inherent savagery 

Evil 

The Devil 

200

The first boy Ralph meets

Piggy

200

What the boys cling to when they first arrive on the island

rules and order from their old life

200

What the conch is used for

Call meetings 

Decide who is talking

200

What Ralph does when he joins in on the pig hunt

Gets carried away

200

The conch is symbolic of

Civilization 

Adult Rules 

300

The name of the character who pushes the boulder causing Piggy's death

Roger

300

Jack's first reaction to rules on the island

They are needed

300

What happens when the boys first build a fire

gets out of control

Kills a littlun. 

300

What Jack does with the pig head

puts it on a stick for the beast

300

What the signal fire represents

Rescue

Hope 

400

The first boy to die on the island

little boy with the scar on his face

400

What the boys' increasing levels of violence show

slip from civilization and into savagery

400

What prevents Roger from hurting the boy when throwing stones on the beach

Rules and civilization

400

What Piggy's death symbolizes

The death of logic and reason

400

What Piggy's character represents

Logic and reason 

500

Character that is considered an outsider throughout the novel

Simon

500

What Golding uses to represent the ongoing change of the boys in the novel

Their appearance 

500

What Simon means when he says "what I mean is...maybe it's only us."

The beast is inside them or everyone has evil inside 

500

Meaning of this quote at the end of the novel - "Ralph wept for the end of innocence"?

Ralph has seen the true nature of mankind and has witnessed two blameless characters being killed by savage mobs

500

How the first boy dies in the book

from the first fire that got out of control