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Lord of the Flies
Notes from first two chapters are currently missing? At school? Will check.
Chapter 3 “Huts on the Beach”
48 Jack’s altered appearance
49 Jack hunts, throws a spear at a pig but misses
50 Simon and Ralph are trying to build a shelter, but no one else is helping
51 Jack and Ralph – hunting vs. shelters argument
52 we need shelters because of the beast – is it real?
55 Simon’s appearance deceived Ralph into thinking him “delightfully gay and wicked”
57 Simon finds quiet refuge in a canopy of leaves
Chapter 4 “Painted Faces and Long Hair”
59 littluns separated from big ones
- littluns are aged 6, they listen to authority (the conch shell)
60 Maurice and Roger kick over sand castles – Maurice still feels the unease of wrongdoing despite an absence of parents
- Roger “unsociable remoteness . . . gloomy”
62 Roger throws stones at Henry to scare him but is careful not to hit him
- “Roger’s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins.”
63 Jack camouflages his face with clay
- he sees himself as a “stranger”
64 “the mask compelled them” to follow Jack to hunt
64-65 Piggy wants to build a sundial
- Ralph jokes that they should also build a TV and plane
- Piggy doesn’t get the joke
65 description of Piggy
66 boys see a ship on the horizon 2
67 the “scar”
- fire is burned out
68 Ralph to ship: “Come back!”
- procession of Jack and others with the slaughtered pig
69 Ralph to Jack: “You let the fire go out”
70 Ralph to Jack: “I was chief, and you were going to do what I said”
71 “there was the brilliant world of hunting . . . and the world of longing and baffled commonsense.”
- Jack hits Piggy in stomach; glasses fall off
72 Jack apologizes for letting the fire go out; Ralph calls this a “dirty trick”
73 Ralph grabs Piggy’s glasses to start the fire; “a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened”
74 Jack: “I got you meat! Now you eat – all of you”
Chapter 5 “Beast from the Water
76 Ralph feels the “wearisomeness of this life”
- he discovers “dirt and decay”
79 Ralph must use oratory skills to win people over during the assembly, but he’s freezing up
- he complains the water device is not ready and the shelters are not built
80 Ralph complains about people urinating outside the designated area
81 now Ralph complains about the fire going out and institutes a fire ban on the island except on top of the mountain
- authority = Ralph: “do as I say”
82 Ralph: “things are breaking up”
- quashes any notion of fear or that the beast is real
- Jack calls them “crybabies”; says, “fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream”
83 Piggy grabs conch; what would a beast eat? Piggy: “we eat pigs”
85 boy tells story of beast in the night; captivates kids 3
86 littluns push forward Percival
87 little boy cracks and begins crying uncontrollably
88 water monster – could it come out of the water
89 * Simon: maybe we are the beasts; “man’s essential illness”
90 Ralph: “I don’t think I do (believe in ghosts)”
91 the “understandable and lawful world was slipping away”
- Piggy: “what are we? Humans? Or animals?”
- Jack takes conch; Ralph replies, “I am chief. I was chosen.”
- authority breaks down
- Ralph: “You’re breaking the rules. Rules are the only thing we got.”
93 Piggy: “If Jack was chief he’d have all hunting and no fire.”
94 “At home there was always a grown-up. . . how I wish . . . I wish my auntie was here . . . I wish my father.”
- Piggy: “Grown-ups know things. They aren’t afraid of the dark.”
Chapter 6 “Beast from Air”
95 parachute descends on the mountain
97 Sam and Eric at the fire – have a confusing conversation
100 boys say they saw monster in the forest – wake up Sam
103 boy decides to check the one place that Jack hasn’t been to – the tail-end part with rocks piled up
107 boys roll rock into the sea
- Ralph wants to keep searching for the beast
Chapter 7 “Shadows and Tall Trees”
109 Ralph wants to be clean
112 Ralph daydreams about the comforts of home
113 Ralph hits boar with spear, sow runs off, but Ralph feels good about hunting 4
115 Ralph turns animalistic; “the desire to squeeze, and hurt was over-mastering”
117 Simon volunteers to run through the forest solo back to Piggy
118 deciding whether to turn back to Piggy by nightfall or keep looking for the beast
120 Ralph reluctantly joins Jack to find beast (Roger comes along too)
122 Ralph gets bravado; Jack hesitates
123 the boys see the dead parachute soldier and run off the mountain
Chapter 8 “Gift for the Darkness”
127 Jack asks for a vote; how many want Ralph not to be chief; no one raises his hand; Jack goes off on his own
129 can’t build a fire on the mountain anymore with the beast up there
- Piggy suggests building it down near the pool; Ralph agrees
133 Jack to his crew: “We’ll forget about the beast”
Jack: we’ll leave some of our kill for the beast so it won’t bother us
135 boys kill pig; “right up her ass”
137 Simon has flashbacks of the pig
- pig’s head on a spike
138 the “Lord of the Flies”
139-40 Ralph: “what makes things break up like they do?”
Piggy: It must be Jack
140 Jack and others raid the fire – tell boys they’re having a feast and they could come over
142 Ralph hesitates to explain to boys the importance of the fire
143 Lord of the Flies talks to Simon
- “I’m part of you. Close, close, close”
Chapter 9 “A View to a Death”
146 Simon finds parachute soldier
150 foreshadow – storm clouds 5
- Ralph and Piggy join the hunters at the feast
- authority
- Jack to Ralph: “the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island”
152 confusion – thunderstorm – boys – beast – Simon? – parachute guy falls
154 boys kill Simon
- “the strange attendant creatures”
Chapter 10 “The Shell and the Glasses”
156-57 Piggy says it was an accident to kill Simon, to forget about it; Ralph is concerned about the killing though
158 Ralph confronts twins about last night; they claim they left the feast early
159 Ralph climbs the mountain, notices a lever in the rocks
160 Jack’s boys described as “savages”
161 “we’ll do our dance again” if anyone tries to invade our camp
162 Ralph: “double-purpose of fire – to signal and to provide comfort
- “might get taken prisoner by the reds”
164 the safety of technology, the comforts at home; Ralph daydreams of home life
165 Piggy: “we must get rescued or we’ll go “barmy, round the bend, bomb happy, crackers”
167 kids come in the middle of the night to attack Piggy but the boys fight them off
168 “they didn’t come for the conch. They came for something else.”
- see Jack at the beach holding a spear and Piggy’s glasses
Chapter 11 “Castle Rock”
169 boys awaken to a stolen fire, call an assembly
170 Piggy: “What you going to do, Ralph? This is jus’ talk without deciding.”
172 Ralph: “we won’t be painted because we aren’t savages.”
176-177 Ralph and Piggy come to Jack’s camp to get Piggy’s glasses back
177 Jack rushes at Ralph and they fight 6
178 Sam, Eric, Piggy, Ralph = the ones in their group
179 savages capture the twins
- Ralph and Jack fight again, Piggy intervenes with conch
181 Piggy gets struck by a rock – gruesome death
- Ralph is struck by a spear by escapes in the forest
Chapter 12 “Cry of the Hunters”
185 The Lord of the Flies skull “gleamed as white as ever the conch had done”
- Ralph breaks skull
197 Ralph hides, they smoke him out and set the island on fire
200 Ralph wakes to an officer standing over him
202 “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”