-
Lord of the Flies
At the end of Lord of the Flies, the boys are rescued just as Jack's tribe is hunting Ralph with the intent to kill him, having set the island on fire to smoke Ralph out of the forest. The naval...
-
Lord of the Flies
Toward the end of the novel, a fleet of British ships finally arrives to rescue the remaining boys from the island. The officer takes one look at the boys and says with a smile, "Fun and games." To...
-
Lord of the Flies
In the first chapter, Ralph and Piggy find the conch and use it to summon the other boys. Ralph is already establishing himself as a leader and an efficient organizer. When Jack shows up, he acts...
-
Lord of the Flies
One quality that makes Ralph a good leader is that he (mostly) seems to care about the kids in his care. By the beginning of chapter 2, he has explored the island and is able to begin formulating...
-
Lord of the Flies
Toward the end of chapter 8, Simon arrives at his secluded spot in the forest where Jack and his savages made a sacrifice to the beast by placing the severed pig's head onto a stake. As Simon...
-
Lord of the Flies
Toward the beginning of chapter ten, Ralph acknowledges that they killed Simon during the violent storm but Piggy refuses to accept responsibility for participating in the brutal murder. Piggy...
-
Lord of the Flies
At the end of William Golding's Lord of the Flies, Ralph has undergone a massive personality change. At the beginning of the book, even in the midst of tragedy and panic, Ralph was a calm and fair...
-
Lord of the Flies
At the end of Chapter 9, Simon is brutally murdered by the group of boys who initially mistake him for the beast coming out of the forest. The boys were so worked up into a frenzy that they were...
-
Lord of the Flies
Aside from Ralph, the characters of Maurice and Roger also lose their innocence throughout the novel Lord of the Flies. At the beginning of the novel Maurice is portrayed as a funny, helpful boy....
-
Lord of the Flies
The first two characters we meet are Ralph and Piggy. Ralph is described as being strong and handsome with a certain coolness about him that gives him an air of leadership. He is eager to make...
-
Lord of the Flies
This homework question is difficult to help with because it is asking you to state your own opinions on William Golding based on whatever your teacher has taught you about him in class. Also,...
-
Lord of the Flies
In "Lord of the Flies" fire is representative of three things: hope, power, and destruction. In the beginning of the novel, fire represents hope. The boys agree to build and maintain a fire as a...
-
Lord of the Flies
This is a key question for Golding's novel. After the plane crash, the boys are alone and unsupervised on the island, which means that all external obligations and responsibilities are absent. How...
-
Lord of the Flies
The quote that you are referring to comes in chapter 4. It is Jack's first successful pig hunt and his first kill. The simple answer to your question is that the quote shows that Jack is capable...
-
Lord of the Flies
One major similarity between Jack in Lord of the Flies and Adolf Hitler is how both use violence, fear, and intimidation as a means to gain and keep power. Jack's ability to kill and gut the sow...
-
Lord of the Flies
One of the major reasons that Golding wrote The Lord of the Flies was to present a picture of what would happen if innocent boys were placed on an island alone without the influence of society or...
-
Lord of the Flies
Unfortunately, your original question was a bit vague, so I am hopeful this will meet your needs. Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, is all about chaos. The chaos begins before the novel...
-
Lord of the Flies
Ralph does try and bring order to chaos on the island. His primary ojective is rescue, so the boys can reconnect to ciivilization. In the chapter two, "Fire on the Mountain," Ralph lays down rules...
-
Lord of the Flies
The boys' idea of the beast is as undefined as their own fears. As the novel progresses, their idea of the beast evolves as their own fears concerning the island deepen and change. At first, the...
-
Lord of the Flies
This quote from chapter 8 demonstrates that courage is a transient thing for the boys, and depends on circumstances. The book depicts a group of boys isolated on a deserted island by a plane crash...
-
Lord of the Flies
A strong example of distrust occurs very early on in the novel when Piggy tells Ralph about his humorous, yet cruel nickname "Piggy." Piggy warns Ralph not to tell the others, but as soon as Ralph...
-
Lord of the Flies
Throughout the novel Piggy is the intelligent, scientific voice of reason. One of the remarkable things about Piggy is that he actually doesn't change. When he dies at the hands of one of the...
-
Lord of the Flies
At the beginning of the story, Ralph and Piggy are wandering by themselves near the beach when they spot a beautiful conch shell in the lagoon. The boys proceed to retrieve the large shell from the...
-
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies shows how the boys' makeshift civilization on the island descends into chaos. At first, there is an attempt to mimic the social order of the adult world they were dependent upon...
-
Lord of the Flies
In the backdrop of the story, a world war is taking place and the events on the uninhabited tropical island serve as a microcosm of what is currently happening in the outside world. The characters...
-
Lord of the Flies
In Lord of the Flies, by William Golding, two boys emerge as leaders from the very beginning. Ralph is elected leader by the boys on the island simply because he looks like a leader to them; Piggy...
-
Lord of the Flies
There are actually three deaths in William Golding's novel Lord of the Flies, but the two you mention can be classified as murders and are therefor more egregious. The first death is the little boy...
-
Lord of the Flies
Beyond the platform there was more enchantment. Some act of God—a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival—had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long,...
-
Lord of the Flies
The final chapter of William Golding's Lord of the Flies is called "Cry of the Hunters," and it is an apt title in several ways. The story follows a group of English schoolboys who, without the...
-
Lord of the Flies
It seems as if you have a good start! I'm not sure whether your teacher only wants you to include things that the characters could actually have on the island (you chose a hammer, which is...
-
Lord of the Flies
I don't know that I would say the conch is part of Ralph's past, as he and Piggy find it on the island, but it stands as a symbol of beauty and, more importantly, of the belief in shared authority...
-
Lord of the Flies
At the beginning of chapter 8, Jack gets offended by a comment Ralph makes about his band of hunters and proceeds to blow into the conch to call an assembly. Once the boys gather, Jack informs them...
-
Lord of the Flies
Interesting question. In Lord of the Flies the power of the conch is clear virtually from the first moment it's found--it has the power to unite the boys. Soon it becomes the sign of order and...
-
Lord of the Flies
I think that you could do quite well with quotes that focus on power, leadership, and civilization. Those three themes are quite interrelated in this book, so a single quote could be applied to...
-
Lord of the Flies
In an analysis of Simon, he is considered a Christ-like figure. He is a picture of goodness. Previously to his death, he was rushing to tell the boys that there is no beast. He had determined that...
-
Lord of the Flies
The signal fire in the story is a symbol of hope of the boys' return to civilisation. By keeping the signal fire going they hope to attract the attention of a passing boat or aircraft who will then...
-
Lord of the Flies
Piggy represents the intelligent, civilized mind. When he is killed, he is trying to intellectually reason with the boys. He has to be killed, because he's making too much sense. Piggy is the one...
-
Lord of the Flies
In the William Golding novel, The Lord of the Flies, the tragic irony of Simon's death lays in the discovery of the beastie. Simon is the one who discovers the dead pilot and the parachute that...
-
Lord of the Flies
Jack's overall appearance and personality make him the powerful leader that he is. He is described as taller than the other boys. That alone gives him an advantage. Then his outgoing personality...
-
Lord of the Flies
In chapter nine, Simon climbs to the top of the mountain and discovers that the beast is simply the lifeless corpse of a dead paratrooper. Simon proceeds to climb down the mountain and attempts to...
-
Lord of the Flies
This chapter is dominated by fear and a struggle to regroup, so I'd choose the following phrases: Efforts to reorganize As leader, Ralph looks around and realizes that the group is slipping into...
-
Lord of the Flies
At the start of the story, Ralph is optimistic, calm, and confident. He seems to know what needs to be done to get rescued and he knows that leadership is required. Since he does immediately...
-
Lord of the Flies
In chapter 11, Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric go to Castle Rock to confront Jack and his followers and demand back the fire. They are the last remnants of reason on the island, and they analyze their...
-
Lord of the Flies
Introduced in Chapter One as the "fair boy" with "a golden body," Ralph is described as twelve years old, but having lost the prominent tummy of chilhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to...
-
Lord of the Flies
Simon is the most mystical character in the novel, and, like most spiritualists, finds peace and solace in the beauty of the natural world. In fact, he must periodically return to nature in order...
-
Lord of the Flies
In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the conch itself is a metaphor for law and order. The entire novel is a kind of allegory, showing the flaws of civilization through the story of a group of...
-
Lord of the Flies
Ralph begins as a rather naive boy. When they first land on the island, he cares about no one but himself. Power changes him, but not in negative ways. He is elected leader only because he blows...
-
Lord of the Flies
In Golding's classic novel, Jack and the majority of the boys reject Ralph and his attempts to establish a civilized society in favor of hunting pigs and living like savages. The primary appeal of...
-
Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies by William Golding is about a group of British school boys stranded on a deserted island. Without adults, the boys must fend for themselves. They have no tools and must find food....
-
Lord of the Flies
There are many different editions of Lord of the Flies, so the page numbers vary widely. The quoted sentence occurs in chapter 8, about a quarter into the chapter. It is part of the third-person...
