lord of the files notes
Chapters:
Quotes:
Leading to boys becoming Savage
Chapter 1
They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood (golding 31).
Jack fears killing the pig in chapter 1, this is a fear he overcomes as he sheds his civilization and morals and adopts the way of the “savage” after not being able to stab it only makes him more urgent to prove himself by being overly savage
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Startled, Ralph realized that the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the beginnings of awe at the power set free below them. The knowledge and awe made him savage ( golding 44).
The fire that breaks loose on the mountain, it symbolizes the uncontrollable savagery that soon becomes the stranded young boys. Just like the savage fire kills the boy with the birthmark, the boys' savagery ways and un civilized actions kills others.
Chapter 4
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in (golding 75).
Almost if jacks way to prove himself to the others on the island especially Ralph, jack and his hunters start a gruesome chant that follows throughout the novel into their transformation to savagery.
Chapter 5 "What would a beast eat?" / "Pig." / "We eat pig." / "Piggy!" (golding 83). The boys are still afraid of a rumored “beastie” roaming the island. The fact that the beast eats pig is very significant and symbolic. The beast of who they speak is the boys or the evil within/inside the boys. It is the boys who kill Piggy you find out later in the novel. The boys sacrificed a pig to the beast you could say the beast does eat pig, metaphorically speaking.
Chapter 6 But a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it. There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars (95) this comes immediately after Piggy hopes for a sign from the adult world to straighten things up
Quotes:
Leading to boys becoming Savage
Chapter 1
They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood (golding 31).
Jack fears killing the pig in chapter 1, this is a fear he overcomes as he sheds his civilization and morals and adopts the way of the “savage” after not being able to stab it only makes him more urgent to prove himself by being overly savage
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Startled, Ralph realized that the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the beginnings of awe at the power set free below them. The knowledge and awe made him savage ( golding 44).
The fire that breaks loose on the mountain, it symbolizes the uncontrollable savagery that soon becomes the stranded young boys. Just like the savage fire kills the boy with the birthmark, the boys' savagery ways and un civilized actions kills others.
Chapter 4
Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in (golding 75).
Almost if jacks way to prove himself to the others on the island especially Ralph, jack and his hunters start a gruesome chant that follows throughout the novel into their transformation to savagery.
Chapter 5 "What would a beast eat?" / "Pig." / "We eat pig." / "Piggy!" (golding 83). The boys are still afraid of a rumored “beastie” roaming the island. The fact that the beast eats pig is very significant and symbolic. The beast of who they speak is the boys or the evil within/inside the boys. It is the boys who kill Piggy you find out later in the novel. The boys sacrificed a pig to the beast you could say the beast does eat pig, metaphorically speaking.
Chapter 6 But a sign came down from the world of grownups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it. There was a sudden bright explosion and corkscrew trail across the sky; then darkness again and stars (95) this comes immediately after Piggy hopes for a sign from the adult world to straighten things up