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 word 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?
Before Golding was an author, his profession was this.
What is a professor/teacher?
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.
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?
During WWII, Golding enlisted in the Royal Navy. This is what inspired Golding to write Lord of the Flies.
What is evil?
Gentle, quiet, and murdered by the mob of boys
Who is Simon?
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.
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?
This novel, a story of boys living on an unsupervised island, is on which Golding based his novel, Lord of the Flies, but believed that this story was unrealistic.
What is Coral 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 the boys.
What is fear?
This character's death symbolizes the first sign of loss of innocence
Who is The Boy with the Mulberry Birthmark?
This war experience deeply affected and influenced Golding to write about the dark side of human nature.
What is World War II?
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?
Golding believed that his profession as this inspired him to write Lord of the Flies because of his experience unruly young boys.
What is a teacher?