As you move around the room, take notes about your conversations.

“We needed meat.”

Jack stood up as he said this, the bloodied knife in his hand. The two boys faced each other. There was the brilliant
world of hunting, tactics, fierce exhilaration, skill; and there was the world of longing and baffled commonsense. Jack transferred
the knife to his left hand and smudged blood over his forehead as he pushed down the plastered hair. (71)
•Why does the narrator divide experience into two “worlds” here?
•How does imagery in this passage contribute to character and theme?

Only, decided Ralph as he faced the chief’s seat, I can’t think. Not like Piggy.
Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values. Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head
of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and
could recognize thought in another. (78)
•What is meant by “thought” here?
•What does it mean to be a “specialist in thought”?

For now the littluns were no longer silent. They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves
to share in a sorrow that was universal. They began to cry in sympathy, two of them almost as loud as Percival. (87)
•What is the difference between feeling a personal sorrow and feeling a sorrow that is universal?
•Why do you think the narrator includes the word “perhaps” in his description of the littluns’ feelings?

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to explain mankind’s essential illness. (89)
•What does the narrator mean by “mankind’s essential illness”? What is that?

A sliver of moon rose over the horizon, hardly large enough to make a path of light even when it sat right down on the
water; but there were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out, though not even a faint popping came down
from the battle fought at ten miles’ height. (95)
•How does the narrator compare and contrast the world of nature and the world of human beings in this passage?
•How does imagery contribute to theme in this passage?
Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head
between its knees, held by a complication of lines. When the breeze blew, the lines would strain taut and some accident of this
pull lifted the head and chest upright so that the figure seemed to peer across the brow of the mountain. Then, each time the wind
dropped, the line would slacken and the figure bow forward again, sinking its head between its knees. So as the stars moved
across the sky, the figure sat on the mountaintop and bowed and sank and bowed again. (96)
•How does imagery contribute to theme in this passage?

They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with terror to the description the twins breathed at them between
bouts of extreme silence. Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace. An interminable dawn
faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter. They began to stir though still the world outside the
shelter was impossibly dangerous. The maze of darkness sorted into near and far, and at the high point of the sky the cloudlets
were warmed with color. A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was echoed presently, and something
squawked in the forest. Now streaks of cloud near the horizon began to grow rosily, and the feathery tops of the palms were
green. (99)
•From whose perspective is this passage narrated?
•How does imagery contribute to theme here?

Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity—a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a
mountaintop, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose
before his sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. (103)
•How does this passage help to develop Simon’s character?

Ralph shuddered. The lagoon had protected them from the Pacific: and for some reason only Jack had gone right down
to the other side. Now he saw the landsman’s view of the swell and it seemed like the breathing of some stupendous creature.
(105)
•What part do you think the Pacific plays in the Lord of the Flies allegory?

How would you characterize the narrator’s attitude towards human beings?

How would you characterize the narrator’s attitude towards the natural world?