LoFT quotes

Ralph - Natural leader

‘I’m chief, I’ll go. Don’t argue’

Ralph - Organised

‘The meeting must not be fun, but business’

Ralph - Charismatic

‘There was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil’

Ralph - Civilized

‘We’ve got to have rules and obey them’

Jack - Savage

‘He began to dance and his laughter became a blood thirsty snarling’

Jack - rulebreaker

‘Who cares?’

Jack - Tyrant

‘Who’s going to join my tribe’

Piggy - Outsider

‘Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, but by fat, and assmar and specs’

Piggy - Rational

‘Life is scientific that’s what it is’

Piggy - Democratic

‘I got the conch! Just you listen’

Roger - Watchful

‘Roger remained, watching the littluns’

Roger - menacing

‘Roger advanced upon them’

Roger - military

‘Halt! who goes there?

Roger - Restricted

‘Taboo of his own life’

Simon - Solidarity

‘He went on among the creepers’

Simon - considerate

‘Pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage’

Simon - Perceptive

‘Maybe its only us’

The conch - attractive

‘Pretty and worthy plaything’

The conch - democracy

‘I got the conch…I got the right to speak’

The conch - maintains order

‘If I blow the conch and they don’t come back’

Hope

‘We may stay here till we die’

The beast

‘A snake-thing. Ever so big. He saw it.’