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Lord of the FliesChapter 1 4
Analysis: Chapter 1 5
Chapter 2 5
Analysis: Chapter 2 6
Chapter 3 7
Analysis: Chapter 3 7
Chapter 4 8
Analysis: Chapter 4 9
Chapter 5 10
Analysis: Chapter 5 10
Chapter 6 11
Analysis: Chapter 6 12
Chapter 7 12
Analysis: Chapter 7 13
Chapter 8 14
Analysis: Chapter 8 15
Chapter 9 16
Analysis: Chapter 9 17
Chapter 10 18
Analysis: Chapter 10 18
Chapter 11 19
Analysis: Chapter 11 20
Chapter 12 20
Analysis: Chapter 12 21
Characters 22
Ralph 22
Jack 23
Simon 24
Piggy 25
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,Roger 26
Sam and Eric 27
Themes 27
Civilisation Vs. Savagery, order vs. chaos, reason vs. impulse, law vs. anarchy,
good vs. evil 27
Loss Of Innocence 29
Struggle To Build Civilisation 29
Man’s Inherent Evil 29
Dangers Of Mob Mentality 30
War And The Future Of Mankind 30
Biblical Parallels 31
The Conch Shell 31
Piggy’s Glasses 31
The Signal Fire 32
The Beast 32
The Lord Of The Flies 32
Adults and war. 33
Ralph, Piggy, Jack, Simon, And Roger 33
Jack’s mask and war paint 33
Double headed spear 34
Sticks made into spears 34
ENDING OF THE NOVEL 34
The scar 35
Protagonist 35
Antagonist 36
Setting 36
Genre 37
Allegorical Fiction 37
Dystopian Fiction 38
Style 38
Point of View 41
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,Tone 41
Foreshadowing 42
Simon’s Death 42
Piggy’s Death 42
Burning of the Island 43
The Boys’ Rescue 43
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, Chapter 1
- Disorientation by the reader mirrors disorientation of the children
- Undisturbed nature is pristine, humanity spoil/ruin/scar that perfection, introduces evil to paradise
- fair-haired, tall, handsome, and athletic boy wanders around a crash site „long scar“
- lowers himself down some rocks toward a lagoon on a beach
- encounters chubby, intellectual boy, wears thick glasses „specs“
- Piggy described as „fat“ seven times in the rst two pages, never learn his real name
- Proudly announces that he has asthma, Ralph rebrands as „ass-mar“
- midst of a war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys was shot down over the ocean,
crashed in thick jungle on a deserted island, scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lost each other
and cannot nd the pilot, all the adults on the plane were killed
- Find a closed lagoon, Ralph swims, Piggy can’t because of asthma: „Sucks to your ass-mar“
- look around the beach, wondering what has become of the other boys from the plane
- discover a large, cream-coloured conch shell - Piggy: could be used as a trumpet
- convinces Ralph to blow through the shell to nd the other boys, blast of sound from the shell, boys
start to straggle onto the beach
- oldest among them are around twelve; the youngest are around six
- boys’ choir, dressed in black gowns and led by an older boy named Jack. They march to the beach in
two parallel lines, and Jack snaps at them to stand at attention. The boys provoke Piggy and mock his
appearance and nickname
- boys decide to elect a leader -> choirboys vote for Jack, all the other boys vote for Ralph
- wins the vote, Jack clearly wants the position
- to pacify Jack, Ralph asks the choir to serve as the hunters, asks Jack to lead them
- need to explore their new environment, Ralph chooses Jack and a choir member named Simon to
explore the island, ignoring Piggy’s whining requests to be picked
- three explorers leave the meeting place and set o across the island.
- prospect of exploring the island exhilarates/exites/thrills the boys, play together in the jungle
- feel a bond forming among them
- reach the end of the jungle, where high, sharp rocks extend out toward steep mountains
- climb up the side of one of the steep hills, from the peak, they can see that they are on an island with no
signs of civilisation
- Ralph feels as though they have discovered their own land
- travel back toward the beach, nd a wild pig caught in a tangle of vines
- Jack draws his knife, steps in to kill it, but hesitates, unable to bring himself to act
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