Lord of the Flies

Q1 '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.'
R1 Jack makes this statement to the younger boys on how they are to go about there situation. This portrays Jack as confident and cocky however later in the story Jack and his hunters become savages themselves in order to hunt for food.
Q2 "'I don't care what [you] call me so long as...[it's not] what they used to call me in school...They used to call me Piggy!'"
R2 When I first read this quote I had a feeling that Ralph was going to break Piggy's promise later on in the story and found this quote humorous how mad Piggy got when somebody called him that
Q3 "'Have you got any matches?'"
R3 I have always wondered if I ever were stranded on an unknown island, who would I take and what would be the first thing I would do to survive. I felt somewhat sympathy for the characters because these were kids that don't know each other and have no idea each others capabilities and probably don't know the first thing about any type of survival tactics
Q4 "'I painted my face--I stole up. Now you eat--all of you
R4 Jack seemed frustrated when some of the boys wouldn't eat the pig that he killed. His fury let the reader have a peek at what kind of rage Jack had and what made him angry. Jack also acted as if he deserved immediate respect for going out to get food
Q5 "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."
R5 Ralph realizes how much things have started to change from there regular way of life and feels as if they are slipping away from society. This was kind of scary to me because if your away from society for a long period of time then you will start to adapt to your environment around you and start behaving like the wild animals on the island
Q6 "The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist."
R6 This quote to me was the finally nail in the coffin that Ralph had lost every bit of order and leadership. It also hurt my heart to see Piggy so brutally killed. I wish Golding could killed him off a little less harshly.
Q7 "There was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life."
R7 This quote kind of touched my heart because it shows a sign of humanity still in the kids knowing later that they would all be becoming savages. It also made me wonder how they probably feel realizing that yeah having no adults there is pretty cool for a little but know that they can't function without them
Q8"'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'"
R8 This quote in the book I think started the savage inside the hunters. They used chants like this as if killing was some kind of fun game in a twisted way and encouraged them to do it
Q9 "There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws."
R9 Here Simon is running back from the cave shouting that there is no beast but can't be heard over the groups cheering and shouting. He is mistaken as the beast and is stabbed by the boy's spears. This quote stated the boy's finally transformation from little boy to savage
Q10 "'Which is better, to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is....Which is better, to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?'
R10 When Piggy said this him and Ralph were trying to reason with Jack and his savage hunters however I think this statement somewhat worsened there situation because it came across to me as if Piggy was insulting and scolding Jack for what he was doing and I had a feeling that something was going to happen to Piggy for making that remark
Q11 "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."
R11 This was the most amazing part in the book on how quickly the savages became boys again as soon as there was an adult present. Kind of like how when a child is doing something wrong and suddenly freezes in fear when an adult catches them in the act. This was the same in the book. They froze as if play time was over and it was time to go back to being regular kids
Q12 "What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense."
R12 Whenever Piggy was killed I think any fight that Ralph had in him to fix there form of democracy was shot because Ralph had to ask for advice. Ralph to me was a simple puppet and Piggy was the ventriloquist telling Ralph what to say
Q13 "Surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea."
R13 I found in this part of the story interesting because Simon was always ignored whenever he tried to speak up in assemblies and the last words he tried to shout were still ignored by the savage boys and sadly caused Simon's death
Q14 "He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."
R14 This quote showed more of Jack's strange love for hunting and begin to show more and more how physchotic he was
Q15 "'[Ralph is] like Piggy....He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.'"
R15 Here is when the definite split in the democracy happened. Jack has a better motivational speaker than Piggy or Ralph and is more persuasive. This part in the story put a weird feeling of betrayal in my stomach as Jack triumphed in separating the government into two groups.

Dracula

Q1 "When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there."
R1 This quote is the one of the sign that Count Dracula was a spawn of satan and that any item that resembled a crucifix caused him to jolt back in resentment and fear. I predicted that this would be one of Dracula's weaknesses that would be later used against him.
Q2 "I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome"
R2 This is my favorite and probably the most familiar to the public. At this time of the story, Dracula is welcoming Johnathan to Translyvania. It gave me kind of a mysterious chill when I read it knowing that Dracula was a sinister yet charming and smooth vampire
Q3 "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body."
R3 Here Van Helsing is explaining that Lucy has been bitten by a vampire in her sleep and she is of the "un-dead" and therefore must be killed. This quote explains how to discard a vampire and the certain percautions to take when doing so.
Q4 "Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, comeing and going in great, whirling circles."
R4 Here Mina is writing in her journal about what happened with Lucy one night. Mina discovers a bat flying in the air not knowing that the bat is really Dracula that had bitten Lucy. I liked how this quote puts a question in the reader's mind. Was that really Dracula or just an ordinary bat?
Q5 "He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard..."
R5 Mina is writing in her journal the appearance of Johnathan and his reaction of when he saw Dracula. This shows Mina's curiousity bout the strange man and why did make Johnathan so frightened
Q6 "I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave..."
R6 Reinfield escaped from the insane asylum and believes he is a slave of Dracula (master). I believed that Reinfield was somewhat of a fan of Dracula per say and wanted to become bitten and was willing to do anything to do so
Q7 "The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal... I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there."
R7 Here Johnathan meets the three fair girls they were intimately seduces him and put him in a somewhat spell. This quote I think made a sense of fear run through his body that he was in danger dispite of the sinful temptation he was giving in to
Q8 "I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain."
R8 Here Johnathan discovers fifty wooden boxes in Dracula's bedroom and finds the count sleeping in one of them. He observes the strange way that Dracula sleeps and it seems as if he was hibernating. I think this is one of the first realizations that Johnathan makes that Dracula isn't human.
Q9 "With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast, which was shown by his torn open dress."
R9 Here Mina and Johnathan are put under a spell by the count which causes Mina to drink his blood. This quotes makes the reader again realizes the different ways how Dracula can control and manipulate people.
Q10 "Something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell."
R10 Mina writes in her journal about the "thing" she saw on one of Lucy's midnight adventures not knowing that it is Dracula in a beast form. Again this is another realization of the capabilities of what Count Dracula can do and that he is a demonic creature
Q11 "The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood the girl must have lost..."
R11 Here is a quote that is said by Van Helsing about the appearance of Lucy's neck from where she had been bitten. To me I was surprised that there was so much blood that Helsing describes because I had figured she would be dead by now as many times as Dracula had fed off her
Q12 ''A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.''
R12 Here Van Helsing is asking Quincey to donate his own blood in order to save Lucy's life. I found this quote interesting because a brave man's blood would help a women however Dracula's blood poisoned them with disease of becoming a vampire
Q13 "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
R13 Here Johnathan states in his journal that he was glad to see the morning sun finally because of the horribly night he had endured. This kind of gives the reader a sense of relief that the terrible night that Johnathan had is over and that he has until the next night to escape
Q14 "'Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!'"
R14 Here Count Dracula rescues Johnathan from the three women that were trying to hypnotize and seduce Johnathan. To me this kind of showed a somewhat homosexual side of Dracula as he was trying to claim that Johnathan belonged to him as if he was saying that that was his man
Q15 "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"
R15 Here Lucy asks Mina why she can't accept all three marriage proposals. To me this portrayed Lucy's character as somewhat slutty and whorish. It's no doubt to me why Lucy became Count Dracula's first victim of the story