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.