Key Quotations Flashcards
All 19 cards in this deck
Who says “Sucks to your ass-mar!”?
Ralph, mocking Piggy (Chapter 1).
Complete Jack’s claim to be chief: “I’m chapter chorister and head boy. …”
“… I can sing C sharp.” (Chapter 1)
Who says “We’ve got to have rules and obey them”?
Jack (Chapter 2).
Who says “the English are best at everything”?
Jack (Chapter 2).
Which character often says “I got the conch”?
Piggy, trying to be heard.
Which chant do the hunters sing in Chapter 4?
“Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”
Behind his painted mask, what is Jack “liberated from”?
“shame and self-consciousness” (Chapter 4).
Whose arm was “conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins”?
Roger’s, throwing stones at Henry (Chapter 4).
Who says “maybe it’s only us” about the beast?
Simon (Chapter 5).
Who asks “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
Piggy (Chapter 5).
What does the Lord of the Flies tell Simon? “Fancy thinking the Beast was …”
“… something you could hunt and kill!” (Chapter 8)
Which three words does the Lord of the Flies say to Simon about where the beast is?
“I’m part of you” (Chapter 8).
What two words describe the beast when Simon finds the parachutist?
“harmless and horrible” (Chapter 9).
Who asks “Which is better—to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
Piggy, at Castle Rock (Chapter 11).
Into what does the conch explode when Piggy is killed?
“a thousand white fragments” (Chapter 11).
With what “sense of” does Roger lean on the lever?
“delirious abandonment” (Chapter 11).
What three words does the naval officer use for what he thinks the boys are doing?
“Fun and games” (Chapter 12).
Who does the officer expect to have “put up a better show”?
“a pack of British boys” (Chapter 12).
Complete: “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, …”
“… the darkness of man’s heart” (Chapter 12).