lord of the flies

Cards (39)

  • “The mask compelled the littluns” - Narrator talking about Jack
  • “Jack was on top of the sow, stabbing downward with his knife” - Jack
  • “His arm was conditioned by a civilisation” - Roger
  • “As if it wasn’t a good island… As if...the beastie, the beastie or the snake-thing, was real. Remember?” - Chapter 3
  • “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. O God I want to go home” - Ralph
  • Samneric protested out of the heart of civilisation. Chapter 11.
  • “At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood—and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition’ - Chapter 8
  • “He had taken off his school sweater” - Chapter 1
  • “He had taken off his school sweater” - Chapter 1
  • Conch! conch! “ shouted Jack, we don't need the conch any more.” - Chapter 6
  • Piggy - “I don't care what they call me… so long as they don't call me what they used to at school… they used to call me piggy.’ - chapter 1
  • Jack - “After all, we're not savages. We’re english, and the english are the best at everything” - Chapter 2
  • Piggy - ‘What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think?’ chapter 5
  • “Piggy was an outsider not only by accent”
  • “Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.”
  • “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy”
  • ‘Piggy saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness’ - pg 81
  • “The smaller boys were known now by the generic title of 'littluns'
  • “the weakest most vulnerable in society” - the littl'uns
  • "Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach" - Simon
  • Jack planned a new face. He made one cheek and one eye-socket white , then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right to left jaw. Chapter 4.
  • “Maybe there is a beast… Maybe it's only us” - chapter 5
  • Ralph: “I’m frightened. Of us. I want to go home. Oh God, I want to go home.” - Chapter 10
  • ‘Samneric locked in an embrace, were fighting each other’
  • Lord of the flies - “A gift for the beast” - Chapter 8
  • “the Lord of the Flies hung on his stick and grinned”
  • Jack - “Bollocks to the rules! We’re strong – we hunt! If there’s a beast, we’ll hunt it down! We’ll close in and beat and beat and beat - !” - Chapter 5
  • “Roger sharpened a stick at both ends” - pg 234
  • "they cried for their mothers much less often than might have been expected; they were very brown, and filthy dirty" - the littluns
  • “Jack snatched the glasses off his face" - chapter 2
  • “They’re all dead,” said Piggy, “an’ this is an island. Nobody don’t know we’re here. Your dad don’t know, nobody don’t know—” (Chapter 1)
  • Simon - “If Simon walks in the middle of us,” said Ralph, “then we could talk over his head.”
  • Simon - “We used his specs,” said Simon, smearing a black cheek with his forearm. “He helped that way.”
  • Simon - The water rose further and dressed Simon’s coarse hair with brightness. The line of this cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble. Then it turned gently in the water. - Chapter 9
  • Simon found for [ the littluns ] the fruit they could not reach
  • Samneric - “So did we- very early-we were very tired” - chapter 10
  • “I've been watching the sea. There hasn't been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we'll never be rescued.” - Roger
  • “Use a littl’un” - Jack chapter 7
  • Ralph - “The conch is our only weapon against chaos” - Ralph chapter 8