Characters
The boy who tries to keep democracy on the island and emphasizes that they can't let the signal fire go out.
Who is Ralph?
The boys run away down the mountain, afraid.
What happens when Jack, Roger, and Ralph see the beast (who is really a dead pilot)?
"We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?" (117)
What does Jack say?
"If Jack was chief we'd have all hunting and no fire. We'd be here till we died" (93).
What does Piggy say?
The only hope the boys have left of being rescued.
What is the signal fire?
The boy who has retained the most of society's old rules and logic.
Who is Piggy?
The boys must go to the bathroom by the rocks, keep the fire going, and make no other fires other than the one on the mountain.
What does Ralph decide in his meeting in Chapter 5?
"Why do you hate me?" (118)
What does Ralph ask Jack?
"I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" (127)
What does Jack say when he is humiliated in his own meeting?
Feeding ponies, reading books, his house and his parents
What does Ralph dream about his old life?
The sow's head, which Simon hallucinates to be talking to him, that was left as an offering to the "beast" by Jack
Who is the Lord of the Flies?
Maurice pretends to fall over, making the littluns laugh.
"He can't hurt you: but if you stand out of the way he'd hurt the next thing. And that's me" (93)
What does Piggy say?
"You want a real pig...because you've got to kill him" (115).
What does Robert say after the boys play hunting?
Jack tries to convince the boys that Ralph is a terrible chief, but when he asks who doesn't want Ralph to be chief, nobody raises their hand.
What happens when Jack calls a meeting that humiliates him and makes him separate from the group?
He wishes to cut his hair, have a bath, brush his teeth, and clip his nails.
What does Ralph wish to do at the beginning of Chapter 7?
Simon volunteers to go by himself.
Who goes to tell Piggy the boys won't return until after dark?
"I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!" (113)
What does Ralph say?
"I don't think we'd ever fight a thing that size, honestly, you know. We'd talk but wouldn't fight a tiger. We'd hide. Even Jack'ud hide" (124).
What does Ralph say about fighting the "beast?"
Simon, horrified, who watches hidden in the clearing in the forest where he goes to be alone.
Who witnesses Jack and his hunters killing and gutting the sow?
The only boy who isn't afraid of the forest or the beast, and knows what the "beast" actually is.
Who is Simon?
Maurice says that his father said there are still many unknown animals in the sea.
What are the boys' reaction to Percival saying the beast comes from the sea?
"You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" (143)
What does the Lord of the Flies say to Simon?
What does Ralph say after Jack and his hunters raid the boys on the beach for fire?
"The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved" (92).
How are the boys described as they are coming out the meeting?