LOTF🤮

clamber

Climb awkwardly or with difficulty, scramble

decorous

proper; tasteful; socially correct

furtive

secret, stealthy

clamor

Loud noise or shouting

mortification

shame; humiliation; embarrassment

loitered

stand or wait around idly or without apparent purpose

contrite

extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant

dubious

doubtful; of unlikely authenticity

vagrant

(n.) an idle wanderer, tramp; (adj.) wandering aimlessly

glint

a small flash or light, esp. as reflected from a shiny surface

tacitly

expressed or carried out without words; silently

truculently

savagely; aggressively

glowered

glared; stared angrily

gesticulating

making gestures while speaking

We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages.

Jack

The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.

Ralph

Which is better—to have laws and agree or to hunt and kill?

Piggy

The thing is — fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream

Ralph

Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then —

Ralph

Fancy thinking the beast was something you could hunt or kill, I’m part of you? close, close, close. I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?

LOTF

Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.

About Roger

The mask was the thing on it’s own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.

About Jack

conch

order and civilization

lord of the flies

demon, beast in all of us

piggy’s glasses

power of knowledge; control

adults

civilization

signal fire

hope of rescue, connection to the world

parachutist

fear/meaningless of fear soemtimes

facepaint

mask, disguise of savagery

island

paradise