LORD OF THE FLIES: CHAPTER 1

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1 CHAPTER 1 LITERARY TERMS (DEFINE THE FOLLOWING TERMS & COMPLETE BACK) THE CAST (LIST EVERY CHARACTER MENTIONED & COMPLETE BACK) Characterization: Physical Setting: Imagery: Parallelism: Symbolism: 1. What is the relationship of Ralph, Piggy, & Jack? 2. How does social order come about on the island? 3. What purpose is served by giving a detailed description of the island? 4. Who do you think would make the best leader of the boys introduced in Chapter 1? Why? crooks lodgments proffer fledged garter sidelong efflorescence specious lolled swathing effulgence fronds decorous interposed embossed fluking strident matins precentor sniggers clamor suffusion togs skewed pliant immured bastion astern twining plonking 5. Why do you think that Jack didn t kill the pig? 6. Do you think Ralph will be a successful leader? Explain your reasoning. 7. What factions (sides/teams) do you see forming among the group?

2 YOU BETTER NOT HAVE MISSSED THIS!!!!!!!!!! What is the physical setting of the novel? Characterize Ralph: Characterize Piggy: Characterize Jack: Characterize Simon: Initial gut feelings on the following potentially symbolic efforts of the author: The choir Samneric The Littluns Piggy The island The conch

3 CHAPTER 2 PICTURE TIME! (DRAW THE BEASTIE AFTER READING CHAPTER 2) Foreshadowing: It is a good island. Foreshadowing: Piggy s glasses Foreshadowing/Parallelism: The fire Theme: The breakdown of socialized behavior Bonus technique: Elucidating Information 1. What happened to the small boy with the mulberry birthmark? 2. Why do you think the children saw monsters? What is the Beastie? induced compelled swathes martyred ebullience officious leeward windward hayrick recrimination tumult capering 3. What are some of the rules Ralph introduces to the assembly? 4. Describe the role Piggy takes in Ralph s government and in the community. 5. Describe the relationship between Ralph and Jack.

4 CHAPTER 3 STRATEGIES THAT WORK! (QUESTIONS/PREDICTIONS/ANSWERS) Foreshadow/Symbol: Simon in the woods Parallelism: Biguns & Littluns 1. What imagery/messages is Golding trying to convey in the last 8 paragraphs of this chapter? 2. What do you think Golding means when he writes that Ralph and Jack walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate? festooned tendril pendant avidly inscrutable castanet vicissitudes contrite gesticulated declivities rapt susurration 3. What signs are there of order and organization? Disorder and failure? 4. How have the group s goals changed?

5 CHAPTER 4 STRATEGIES THAT WORK! (QUESTIONS/PREDICTIONS/ANSWERS) Symbols: Piggy and his glasses Characterization: Roger Peer Pressure: Ralph vs. Jack 1. What gives Henry so much pleasure as he pokes at the small forms of life in the pool? 2. What keeps Roger from actually hitting Henry with the stones he throws at the smaller boy? whelming opalescence impending blatant belligerence incursion detritus runnels fibrous sinewy disinclination gouts 3. What reason does Jack give for applying the colored clay to his face? 4. Why couldn t the boys signal the ship that Ralph spotted on the horizon? 5. Where was Jack and his choir when Ralph spotted the smoke from the ship? 6. Why does Jack attack Piggy and what is the result of the attack? 7. What is Jack s reaction when Simon gives Piggy the meat?

6 CHAPTER 5 DRAW A PICTURE OF (THE QUINTESSENTIAL SURVIVAL ITEM) Narrative Technique: Elucidating Information 1. Why does Ralph choose an easy path of firm ground to return to the platform to call an assembly? 2. What is Ralph discovering that he dislikes about the way he is living? apex tottery derisive effigy decorum inarticulate tempestuously bollocks discursive gibbering incantation indigo 3. How does Piggy show disapproval as Ralph s assembly is called? 4. What four complaints does Ralph bring up at the hastily called assembly? 5. Phil reports he saw something at night in the jungle. What is it? 6. What does Percival Wemys Madison reveal to the assembly? 7. What rationale does Piggy give for not believing in ghosts?

7 CHAPTER 6 DRAW A PICTURE OF (THE QUINTESSENTIAL FORT) Foreshadowing: Castle Rock Dramatic Irony: 1. What falls to the island during the night? 2. What has happened above the island to make this thing descend? waxy interminable tremulously diffidently chasms polyp leviathan guano mutinously 3. Who discovers this thing? 4. What do they think it is? 5. What excuses does Ralph give to let Piggy stay behind when the other boys go hunt for the Beast?

8 CHAPTER 7 THE PLAN (HOW DO YOU CATCH A PIG IN THE FOREST?) Ritual: The pig hunt Characterization: Ralph Narrative Technique: Searching Ralph s Past 1. What does Ralph long for? 2. What distracts the boys from the search for the Beast? dun coverts scurfy moors brandishing rugger glowered sagely daunting impervious bravado infuriating 3. What does Ralph daydream about? 4. When the boar charges, what does Ralph do? 5. Who volunteers to go alone through the jungle to tell Piggy the boys will remain after dark? 6. What do Ralph, Jack, and Roger find when they get to the top of the mountain?

9 CHAPTER 8 THE TITLE (WHY LORD OF THE FLIES?) Taboo: Acceptable violence Taboo: Jack. Ritual: The gift Ritual/Symbol: The Lord of the Flies 1. How does Jack respond when Ralph calls his hunters boys with armed sticks? 2. What does Jack do when the boys don t respond to his demand to be chief? prefect sanctity demure fervor palled paunched 3. Why does Simon suggest they go back to the mountain? 4. What does Piggy suggest they do since they can t return to the mountain to build a fire? 5. What happens to most of the Biguns while Ralph and Piggy are busy? 6. What gift does Jack offer to help pacify the Beast? 7. What does Jack ask Roger to do with a stick?

10 CHAPTER 9 FREE WRITE (WHAT DOES THE WORD CONTROL MEAN TO YOU?) Theme: Manipulation Ritual: The pig hunt Ritual: The mob Imagery: Weather Irony: The dead parachutist 1. When Simon awakens and goes up to the mountain, what does he discover? 2. Why does Jack organize the feast? interspersed corpulent derision succulent sauntered demented unendurable furrowing phosphorescence 3. What is the thing that crawls out of the forest? 4. What does Simon try to tell the boys? 5. What do the boys do to Simon? 6. What happens to the parachutist?

11 CHAPTER 10 FREE WRITE (WHAT ARE SOME ESSENTIALS TO SOCIETY?) Symbol: Chief Ritual: The tribe Symbol: Piggy s glasses & fire Point of view: Roger 1. How does Piggy place the blame of what happened to Simon on Simon himself? befouled torrid barmy 2. What are the clues that Ralph & Samneric were part of the dance? 3. How do the boys in Jack s tribe protect Castle Rock? 4. How does the author show that Ralph is beginning to forget what, up to now, he has considered to be their most important goal?

12 CHAPTER 11 EXAMPLES OF (ID, EGO, SUPEREGO) Symbol & Irony: The conch Ritual: The tribe Symbol: The sea Foreshadowing: Leadership Foreshadowing: Roger 1. Why do Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric venture to Castle Rock? 2. What do they take with them as a symbol of their authority? myopia propitiatingly pinnacles quavered sabers truculently cessation parried talisman 3. What happens to Piggy and the conch? 4. What happens to Samneric during the confrontation? 5. Why does Ralph run away?

13 CHAPTER 12 SYNOPSIS OF (THE CORAL ISLAND) Dramatic Irony: The stick sharpened at both ends Symbol & Irony: The fire Point of view: The adult Irony: Fun and games. Irony: The Naval Cruiser Deus Ex Machina: The ending 1. What preparation have Jack and Roger made, and what plan do they have for Ralph, according to Samneric? 2. What is used in the first attempt to flush out Ralph from the thicket? inimical antiphonal ululation ensconce cordon diddle elephantine crepitation shied epaulettes distended 3. When the first attempt to flush out Ralph fails, what is the next attempt? 4. What has drawn the Naval Captain to the island?