Lord of the Flies Chapter 1-12
Ralph ️️Handsome, Athletic, Natural leader, Fair boy, Chief of island,
Piggy ️️Very intelligent, Physically less than perfect fat boy, A reader and thinker rather than a boy
of action, Fat boy, Glasses, Asthma
Simon ️️Poetic, Sensitive, Loner, Rat...
Ralph ✔️✔️Handsome, Athletic, Natural leader, Fair boy, Chief of island,
Piggy ✔️✔️Very intelligent, Physically less than perfect fat boy, A reader and thinker rather than a boy
of action, Fat boy, Glasses, Asthma
Simon ✔️✔️Poetic, Sensitive, Loner, Rather mysterious boy, The boy who fainted
Jack ✔️✔️Choir leader, "Ugly without silliness", Leader of the hunters
Sam & Eric ✔️✔️Identical twin as if later known as Samneric, They were one
Maurice ✔️✔️Choir boy as big Jack, Always Smiling "Grinning all the time"
Roger ✔️✔️Secretive, "Slight, furtive boy" who later shows a natural tendency towards cruelty, The
dark boy
"The littluns" ✔️✔️Name given to the numerous little children of the group
How did the boys happen to come to the island? ✔️✔️These school boys have been ejected from a
flaming airplane. It appears no adults have survived the crash.
What do the boys have that is symbols of authority in the society they form? ✔️✔️The conch shell is
the symbol of authority. It shows who is boss and who has the right to speak.
What does the reader learn about Jack when he slashed the green candle buds? ✔️✔️Jack's method
of dealing with the world seems to be violent.
, Why does Jack hesitate when he lifts his knife to kill the piglet, and what does he promise will happen
next time he meets a pig? ✔️✔️It is hard for Jack to kill living things because he was showing his
mercy. Jack did not kill the pig because he did not want to. But next time Jack will kill the pig and is going
to show no mercy.
Who are the hunters, and what is their job? ✔️✔️The choir boys have become hunters. Their job is to
get food.
What does a little 'um think he has seen in the forest? ✔️✔️He thinks he has seen a "Snake-thing"
which he later calls "Bestie."
How and why do the boys make fire? ✔️✔️The boys make a fire to act as a signal for their reuse. They
use Piggy's glasses as burning glass to start the fire with the sun's rays.
Why does the boys' plan for rescue fail? ✔️✔️The boys did not have a well-thought-out plan. They
used too much wood for a small, controllable fire, and they never thought of a way to control the fire to
keep it from getting out of hand. Most of their available fire wood was burned up, making keeping the
fire going much more difficult.
Although Ralph criticizes the boys for their lack of cooperation, does he bear some of the responsibility
for the failures of the group to achieve its goals? Why or Why not? ✔️✔️Ralph is partially responsible
for their failures. He wants the boys to work and help from a civilized society of the island, but he
doesn't know how to motivate them to do so.
How has Jack's personality developed during his stay on the island? ✔️✔️Jack has degenerated from a
superficially civilized school boy to a near animal level. He learned to kill, yet he too is learning the vest
difference between imagining himself a hunter and actually killing a living creature.
Ralph says of Simon, "He's queer. He's funny." What kind of a boy is Simon? ✔️✔️Simon is one of
Ralph's most loyal and helpful workers. Yet, when he has some free time, he goes of by himself to find a
place to be quiet and to think. Society, like the boys, distrusts those who are loners.
After Maurice and Roger destroy the littleuns' sand castles, Roger stalks the young boy names Henry.
When he begins to throw stones, why does he just throw them near him instead of directly at him?
✔️✔️The old laws of church and school and family still hold him back.
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