lord of the flies quotes

"The hangman's horror clung around him" (pg 182)

Roger -He had just killed piggy with the rock. He was the hangman. Everyone was shocked/horrified bc he enjoyed it this is the death of civilized behavior/ intelligence as well as law and order- the conch gets shattered

"...a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit." (pg 17)

Johnny - character and symbolism, johnny was the first boy to appear from the initial call of the conch... shows are already they have become a bit on civilized or have an adapter to not having adults telling them what to do

"[His] arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins." (pg 62)

Roger - symbolism and character(beginning of evil) he isn't quite savage yet, this is when he's throwing rocks at the littluns but avoids hitting them because he still has the voice of adults in his head telling him not too, even though the adults don't know it's happening and their civilization is also in ruins from the war

"The tears began to flow and sobs shook him...[he] wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise, friend." (pg 202)

Ralph - he cried because he finally could there was an adult there so he didn't have to be leader piggy had just been killed any good family morn

"But there was stillness about [him] as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch." (pg 22)

Ralph - symbolism and theme, this is when Ralph is about to be voted as chief, and he represents leadership, law, and order, and the conch represents power and order

"A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe." (pg 152)

Simon - symbolism, this is showing how the boys are so close to uncivilization and inhumanity that when humanity (simon) and the truth makes it's way in, they mistake it for the beast and kill it

"...for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, apelike among the tangle of trees...He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet." (pg 49)

Jack - character and symbolism (savagery) this is jack hunting and it's showing how into the hunting he gets, and is showing itself as one of his main motives while on the island

"He sighed...Then, with the martyred express of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned towards the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar." (pg 38)

Piggy - symbolism and character, in the beginning of the book when they are going to the mountain for the first time, this is showing his voice of reason

"something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its knees...and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face." (pg 96)

The dead parachutist - symbolism, this is when Samneric mistake it for a beast, which is when fear and jack takes over, and it launches the hunting frenzy, and excelerates the unraveling of civilization

"The water rose farther and dressed [his] coarse hair with brightness. The line of his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulders became sculptured marble. The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head." (pg 154)

Simon - character and symbolism, this is Simon floating out to sea after he dies, and this symbolizes humanity and kindness leaving the island and the boys

"Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?"

Ralph (pg 180) - confronting jack and trying to get Piggy's glasses back

"I'm not going to play anymore. Not with you."

Jack (pg 187) - when jack tries to vote himself in as chief and gets humiliated and runs away to start his own tribe

"I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be rescues? All you can think about is pig, pig, pig!"

Ralph (pg 54) - when him and jack are arguing over huts vs hunting

"Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill"

Lord of the Flies (pg 143) - when LOTF is taunting Simon and telling him that the beast was a part of the boys, not something you could hunt

"I agree with Ralph. We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're english, and the English are best at everything. So we've got to do the right things."

Jack (pg 42) - when they divide up tasks in the beginning and he has his choir be his hunting group

"If you're hunting sometimes...you can feel as if you're not hunting, but-being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle."

Jack (pg 53) talking with Ralph about the littluns nightmares and jack and hunting

"I know there isn't no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn't no fear either...Unless...Unless we get frightened of people."

Piggy (pg 84) - when they have a meeting and they talk about fears and he tries to reason out of the beast existing

"Life...is scientific, that's what it is...I know there isn't no beast-not with claws and all that, I mean-but I know there isn't no fear, either."

Piggy (pg 84) piggy reasoning out of the beast existing

"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?"

Lord of the Flies (pg 143) taunting simon about the truth

"They're going to hunt you tomorrow"

Samneric (pg 188) warning Ralph

"I'm , I'm-"

Percival (pg 201) this is significant because he used to know himself so certainly and recite it all the time, but being on the island and losing humanity and civilization changed him, and he loses who he was

" let's have a vote"

Roger

"Because the rules are those things we've got

Ralph

I'm not gonna play anymore not with you

Jack

Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt and kill

LOTF

"He came—disguised. He may come again even though we gave him the head of our kill to eat. So watch; and be careful."

Jack

Rogers sharpened a stick at both ends

Samneric