Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Name: Mr. Jay - R S. Cristobal

Course: Juris Doctor
Year and Sec.: First Year - 1
Submitted to: Prof. Maya Irarum
 Author’s Page
William Golding was born in Cornwall in 1911 and was educated at Marlborough Grammar
School and at Brasenose College, Oxford. Apart from writing, his past and present occupations
include being a schoolmaster, a lecturer, an actor, a sailor, and a musician. His father was a
schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He was brought up to be a scientist, but revolted.
After two years at Oxford he read English literature instead, and became devoted to Anglo-
Saxon. He spent five years at Oxford. Published a volume of poems in 1935. Taught at Bishop
Wordsworth’s School, Salisbury. Joined the Royal Navy in 1940 and spent six years afloat,
except for seven months in New York and six months helping Lord Cherwell at the Naval
Research Establishment. He saw action against battleships (at the sinking of the Bismarck),
submarines and aircraft. Finished as Lieutenant in command of a rocket ship. He was present off
the French coast for the D-Day invasion, and later at the island of Walcheren. After the war he
returned to teaching, and began to write again. Lord of the Flies, his first novel, was published in
1954. It was filmed by Peter Brook in 1963.
William Golding other books are: The Inheritors (novel) 1955, Pincher Martin (novel) 1956, The
Brass Butterfly (play) 1958, Free Fall (novel) 1959, The Spire (novel) 1964, The Hot Gates
(essays) 1965, The Pyramid (novel) 1967, The Scorpion God (three short novels) 1971, Darkness
Visible (novel) 1979, Rites of Passage (novel) 1980, A Moving Target (essays and
autobiographical pieces) 1982, The Paper Men (novel) 1984, An Egyptian Journal 1985, Close
Quarters (novel) 1987, Fire Down Below (novel) 1989.
In 1980 he won the ‘Booker Prize’ for his novel Rites of Passage. He retired from teaching in
1962. After that, he lived in Wiltshire, listing his recreations as music, sailing, archaeology and
classical Greek.
William Golding died in June 19, 1993.
 Lord of the Flies Characters

Ralph
Ralph is one of the oldest boys on the island. He becomes the group's leader. Golding describes
Ralph as tall for his age and handsome, and he presides over the other boys with a natural sense
of authority. Although he lacks Piggy's overt intelligence, Ralph is calm and rational, with sound
judgment and a strong moral sensibility. But he is susceptible to the same instinctive influences
that affect the other boys, as demonstrated by his contribution to Simon's death. Nevertheless,
Ralph remains the most civilized character throughout the novel. With his strong commitment to
justice and equality, Ralph represents the political tradition of liberal democracy.
Piggy
Piggy, who dislikes his nickname, is the intellectual on the island. Though he is an outsider
among the other boys, Piggy is eventually accepted by them when they discover that his glasses
can be used to ignite fires. Piggy's intellectual talent endears him to Ralph in particular, who
comes to admire and respect him for his clear focus on securing their rescue from the island.
Piggy is dedicated to the ideal of civilization and consistently reprimands the other boys for
behaving as savages. His continual clashes with the group culminate when Roger murders Piggy
by dropping a rock on him, an act that signals the triumph of brute instinct over civilized order.
Intellectual, sensitive, and conscientious, He represents culture within the democratic system
embodied by Ralph. Piggy's nickname symbolically connects him to the pigs on the island, who
quickly become the targets of Jack's and his hunters' bloodlust--an association that foreshadows
his murder.
Jack Merridew
The leader of a boys' choir, Jack exemplifies militarism as it borders on authoritarianism. He is
cruel and sadistic, preoccupied with hunting and killing pigs. His sadism intensifies throughout
the novel, and he eventually turns cruelly on the other boys. Jack feigns an interest in the rules of
order established on the island, but only if they allow him to inflict punishment. Jack represents
anarchy. His rejection of Ralph's imposed order--and the bloody results of this act--indicate the
danger inherent in an anarchic system based only on self-interest.
Simon
The most introspective character in the novel, Simon has a deep affinity with nature and often
walks alone in the jungle. While Piggy represents the cultural and Ralph the political and moral
facets of civilization, Simon represents the spiritual side of human nature. Like Piggy, Simon is
an outcast: the other boys think of him as odd and perhaps insane. It is Simon who finds the
beast. When he attempts to tell the group that it is only a dead pilot, the boys, under the
impression that he is the beast, murder him in a panic. Golding frequently suggests that Simon is
a Christ-figure whose death is a kind of martyrdom. His name, which means "he whom God has
heard," indicates the depth of his spirituality and centrality to the novel's Judeo-Christian
allegory.
Sam and Eric ( Samneric)
The twins are the only boys who remain with Ralph and Piggy to tend to the fire after the others
abandon Ralph for Jack's tribe. The others consider the two boys as a single individual, and
Golding preserves this perception by combining their individual names into one ("Samneric").
Here one might find suggestions about individualism and human uniqueness.
Roger
One of the hunters and the guard at the castle rock fortress, Roger is Jack's equal in cruelty. Even
before the hunters devolve into savagery, Roger is boorish and crude, kicking down sand castles
and throwing sand at others. After the other boys lose all idea of civilization, it is Roger who
murders Piggy.
Maurice
During the hunters' "Kill the pig" chant, Maurice, who is one of Jack's hunters, pretends to be a
pig while the others pretend to slaughter him. When the hunters kill a pig, Jack smears blood on
Maurice's face. Maurice represents the mindless masses.
Percival
One of the smallest boys on the island, Percival often attempts to comfort himself by repeating
his name and address as a memory of home life. He becomes increasingly hysterical over the
course of the novel and requires comforting by the older boys. Percival represents the domestic
or familial aspects of civilization; his inability to remember his name and address upon the boys'
rescue indicates the erosion of domestic impulse with the overturning of democratic order. Note
also that in the literary tradition, Percival was one of the Knights of the Round Table who went
in search of the Holy Grail.
The Beast
A dead pilot whom Simon discovers in the forest. The other boys mistake him as a nefarious
supernatural omen, "The Beast." They attempt to appease his spirit with The Lord of the Flies.
The Lord of the Flies
The pig's head that Jack impales on a stick as an offering to "The Beast." The boys call the
offering "The Lord of the Flies," which in Judeo-Christian mythology refers to Beelzebub, an
incarnation of Satan. In the novel, The Lord of the Flies functions totemically; it represents the
savagery and amorality of Jack's tribe.
Naval Officer
The naval officer appears in the final scene of the novel, when Ralph encounters him on the
beach. He tells Ralph that his ship decided to inspect the island upon seeing a lot of smoke. His
naivete about the boys' violent conflict--he believes they are playing a game--underscores the
tragedy of the situation on the island. His status as a soldier reminds the reader that the boys'
behavior is just a more primitive form of the aggressive and frequently fatal conflicts that
characterize adult civilization.
 Executive Summary

During an unnamed time of war, a plane carrying a group of British schoolboys is shot down
over the Pacific. The pilot of the plane is killed, but many of the boys survive the crash and find
themselves deserted on an uninhabited island, where they are alone without adult supervision.
The first two boys introduced are the main protagonists of the story: Ralph is among the oldest of
the boys, handsome and confident, while Piggy, as he is derisively called, is a pudgy asthmatic
boy with glasses who nevertheless possesses a keen intelligence. Ralph finds a conch shell, and
when he blows it the other boys gather together. Among these boys is Jack Merridew, an
aggressive boy who marches at the head of his choir. Ralph, whom the other boys choose as
chief, leads Jack and another boy, Simon, on an expedition to explore the island. On their
expedition they determine that they are, in fact, on a deserted island and decide that they need to
find food. The three boys find a pig, which Jack prepares to kill but finally balks before he can
actually stab it.
When the boys return from their expedition, Ralph calls a meeting and attempts to set rules of
order for the island. Jack agrees with Ralph, for the existence of rules means the existence of
punishment for those who break them, but Piggy reprimands Jack for his lack of concern over
long-term issues of survival. Ralph proposes that they build a fire on the mountain which could
signal their presence to any passing ships. The boys start building the fire, but the younger boys
lose interest when the task proves too difficult for them. Piggy proves essential to the process:
the boys use his glasses to start the fire. After they start the fire, Piggy loses his temper and
criticizes the other boys for not building shelters first. He worries that they still do not know how
many boys there are, and he believes that one of them is already missing.
While Jack tries to hunt pigs, Ralph orchestrates the building of shelters for the boys. The
smallest boys have not helped at all, while the boys in Jack's choir, whose duty is to hunt for
food, have spent the day swimming. Jack tells Ralph that he feels as if he is being hunted himself
when he hunts for pigs. When Simon, the only boy who has consistently helped Ralph, leaves
presumably to take a bath, Ralph and Jack go to find him at the bathing pool. But Simon instead
is walking around the jungle alone. He finds a serene open space with aromatic bushes and
flowers.
The boys soon settle into a daily pattern on the island. The youngest of the boys, known
generally as the "littluns," spend most of the day searching for fruit to eat. When the boys play,
they still obey some sense of decency toward one another, despite the lack of parental authority.
Jack continues to hunt, while Piggy, who is accepted as an outsider among the boys, considers
building a sundial. A ship passes by the island but does not stop, perhaps because the fire has
burned out. Piggy blames Jack for letting the fire die, for he and his hunters have been
preoccupied with killing a pig at the expense of their duty, and Jack punches Piggy, breaking one
lens of his glasses. Jack and the hunters chant, "Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in" in
celebration of the kill, and they perform a dance in which Maurice pretends to be a pig and the
others pretend to attack him.
Ralph becomes concerned by the behavior of Jack and the hunters and begins to appreciate
Piggy's maturity. He calls an assembly in which he criticizes the boys for not assisting with the
fire or the building of the shelters. He insists that the fire is the most important thing on the
island, for it is their one chance for rescue, and declares that the only place where they should
have a fire is on the mountaintop. Ralph admits that he is frightened but says that there is no
legitimate reason to be afraid. Jack then yells at the littluns for their fear and for not helping with
hunting or building shelters. He proclaims that there is no beast on the island, as some of the
boys believe, but then a littlun, Phil, tells that he had a nightmare and when he awoke saw
something moving among the trees. Simon says that Phil probably saw Simon, for he was
walking in the jungle that night. But the littluns begin to worry about the beast, which they
conceive as a ghost or a squid. Piggy and Ralph fight once more, and when Ralph attempts to
assert the rules of order, Jack asks rhetorically whether anyone cares about the rules. Ralph in
turn insists that the rules are all that they have. Jack then decides to lead an expedition to hunt the
beast, leaving only Ralph, Piggy and Simon behind. Piggy warns Ralph that if Jack becomes
chief, the boys will never be rescued.
That night, during an aerial battle, a pilot parachutes down the island. The pilot dies, possibly on
impact. The next morning, as the twins Sam and Eric are adding kindling to the fire, they spot
the pilot and mistake him for the beast. They scramble down the mountain and wake up Ralph.
Jack calls for a hunt, but Piggy insists that they should stay together, for the beast may not come
near them. Jack claims that the conch is now irrelevant. He takes a swing at Ralph when Ralph
accuses Jack of not wanting to be rescued. Ralph decides to join the hunters on their expedition
to find the beast, despite his wish to rekindle the fire on the mountain. When they reach the other
side of the island, Jack expresses his wish to build a fort near the sea.
The hunters, while searching for the beast, find a boar that attacks Jack, but Jack stabs it and it
runs away. The hunters go into a frenzy, lapsing into their "kill the pig" chant once again. Ralph
realizes that Piggy remains with the littluns back on the other side of the island, and Simon offers
to go back and tell Piggy that the other boys will not be back that night. Ralph realizes that Jack
hates him and confronts him about that fact. Jack mocks Ralph for not wanting to hunt, claiming
that it stems from cowardice, but when the boys see what they believe to be the beast they run
away.
Ralph returns to the shelters to find Piggy and tells him that they saw the beast, but Piggy
remains skeptical. Ralph dismisses the hunters as boys with sticks, but Jack accuses him of
calling his hunters cowards. Jack attempts to assert control over the other boys, calling for
Ralph's removal as chief, but when Ralph retains the support of the other boys Jack runs away,
crying. Piggy suggests that, if the beast prevents them from getting to the mountaintop, they
should build a fire on the beach, and reassures them that they will survive if they behave with
common sense. Simon leaves to sit in the open space that he found earlier. Jack claims that he
will be the chief of the hunters and that they will go to the castle rock where they plan to build a
fort and have a feast. The hunters kill a pig, and Jack smears the blood over Maurice's face. They
then cut off the head and leave it on a stake as an offering for the beast. Jack brings several
hunters back to the shelters, where he invites the other boys to join his tribe and offers them meat
and the opportunity to hunt and have fun. All of the boys, except for Ralph and Piggy, join Jack.
Meanwhile, Simon finds the pig's head that the hunters had left. He dubs it The Lord of the Flies
because of the insects that swarm around it. He believes that it speaks to him, telling him how
foolish he is and that the other boys think he is insane. The pig's head claims that it is the beast,
and it mocks the idea that the beast could be hunted and killed. Simon falls down and loses
consciousness. After he regains consciousness and wanders around, he sees the dead pilot that
the boys perceived to be the beast and realizes what it actually is. He rushes down the mountain
to alert the other boys about what he has found.
Ralph and Piggy, who are playing at the lagoon alone, decide to find the other boys to make sure
that nothing unfortunate happens while they are pretending to be hunters. When they find Jack,
Ralph and Jack argue over who will be chief. When Piggy claims that he gets to speak because
he has the conch, Jack tells him that the conch does not count on his side of the island. The boys
panic when Ralph warns them that a storm is coming. As the storm begins, Simon rushes from
the forest, telling about the dead body on the mountain. Under the impression that he is the beast,
the boys descend on Simon and kill him.
Back on the other side of the island, Ralph and Piggy discuss Simon's death. They both took part
in the murder, but they attempt to justify their behavior as motivated by fear and instinct. The
only four boys who are not part of Jack's tribe are Ralph and Piggy and the twins, Sam and Eric,
who help tend to the fire. At Castle Rock, Jack rules over the boys with the trappings of an idol.
He has kept one boy tied up, and he instills fear in the other boys by warning them about the
beast and the intruders. When Bill asks Jack how they will start a fire, Jack claims that they will
steal the fire from the other boys. Meanwhile, Ralph, Piggy and the twins work on keeping the
fire going but find that it is too difficult to do by themselves. They return to the shelters to sleep.
During the night, the hunters attack the four boys, who fight them off but suffer considerable
injuries. Piggy learns the purpose of the attack: they came to steal his glasses.
After the attack, the four boys decide to go to the castle rock to appeal to Jack as civilized
people. They groom themselves to appear presentable and dress themselves in normal schoolboy
clothes. When they reach Castle Rock, Ralph summons the other boys with the conch. Jack
arrives from hunting and tells Ralph and Piggy to leave them alone. When Jack refuses to listen
to Ralph's appeals to justice, Ralph calls the boys painted fools. Jack takes Sam and Eric as
prisoners and orders them to be tied up. Piggy asks Jack and his hunters whether it is better to be
a pack of painted Indians or sensible like Ralph, but Roger tips a rock over on Piggy, causing
him to fall down the mountain to the beach. The impact kills him and, to the delight of Jack,
shatters the conch shell. Jack declares himself chief and hurls his spear at Ralph, who runs away.
Ralph hides near Castle Rock, where he can see the other boys, whom he no longer recognizes as
civilized English boys but as savages. He crawls to the entrance of Jack's camp, where Sam and
Eric are now stationed as guards, and they give him some meat and urge him to leave. While
Ralph hides, he realizes that the other boys are rolling rocks down the mountain. Ralph evades
the other boys who are hunting for him, then realizes that they are setting the forest on fire in
order to smoke him out-and thus will destroy whatever fruit is left on the island.
Running for his life, Ralph finally collapses on the beach, where a naval officer has arrived with
his ship. He thinks that the boys have only been playing games, and he scolds them for not
behaving in a more organized and responsible manner as is the British custom. As the boys
prepare to leave the island for home, Ralph weeps for the death of Piggy and for the end of the
boys' innocence.
 Annotated Bibliography
Politics has always been an issue from the start up until now as it plays a huge part in the
daily lives of each of us. It deals with the competition of one's wants and needs with regards to
the power that is to be acquired. One good example of a story that is concerned with such ideas
was William Golding's Lord of the flies. Through the presence of the characters that symbolizes
the different views in government as well as the scenes that represents the human's innate nature
to be.
In the first three chapters, the election between Ralph and Jack took place. It will be
noticed that Jack wanted the position of the leader but the odds are in favor of Ralph.
The creation of signal fire on the second chapter represents the hope of survival to
everyone. The conflict that was addressed here is that the boys were clearly boys as they have
forgotten their duty look after the fire and chose to play over the water, which leads to a huge fire
that causes one of them are burned out. Similar to everyday lives of each us in which we choose
to do what we want instead of what we need, merely because of the satisfaction it gives us and
clearly neglect the fact that "what we need" is a must be because it will help us survive. The
death of a boy represents that people will face consequences due to their immaturity and having
no sense of responsibility. Another point in this chapter was when the character of Piggy gives
suggestions, but due to his appearance and weak persona his words carry little weight and often
neglected, but when Ralph, the leader gives the same suggestions, the boys do as he says. Here, it
shows that people's basis in terms of leadership was based on looks and credibility and not upon
one's intelligence. Even though Piggy creates good ideas his words are not taken seriously due to
his physical appearance. It resembles the government in which the mass shades the circle beside
the names of the one that are known and famous instead of those who are more capable of
making our society even better.
The next two chapters deal with the tension between the two leaders of the boys so-
called-society. Since the first chapter, the mutual anger that they have for one another was
evident but not stated, yet on this part the verbal argument shows the real feelings that they have
towards each other. Ralph was focused on making huts for each of the boys, while on the other
hand, Jack was a hunting enthusiast, the meat hunting was used as an excused in order for him
and his boys not to participate in making shelter. This symbolizes, that those who have power
will use what they have in order for things to be in favor of them as well as for them to acquire
the desires that they have. Also, Simon's character opposes most of them. The sense of kindness
and goodness was shown as he helped those so called "littluns" as well as the leader Ralph. He
was different to most of the boys whose mind is more into playing or into hunting.
In the sixth to ninth chapter, the society that the boys created on the island is now more
similar to the actual political status that most of the countries experience. Here in chapter six, the
little boys that they call "littuns" are the instrument that Golding used to represent the
commoners or the common people who are oppressed and treated badly by those who are in
power as what Jack and his boys do. On the other hand, Ralph, Piggy, and Simon have the sense
of leadership wherein they try to do what is must in order for them as well as those little boys to
survive. The more Ralph and Jack fought, the more it makes the life of the littluns harder.
Nowadays, whenever the one who have the power opposes one another, the common people are
the ones who suffer as they were affected.
 On the last two chapters, Golding uses the beast to denote that each of us is qualified of
being a monster. Jack, as an authoritarian, took advantage to gain more power with the presence
of the monster. He manipulates the littluns as well as the other boys. In here, it means that people
always want more, humans were never contented. The character of Jack already, have the power
over the hunters, yet he wanted more and make use of a monster to have more control over the
boys. Similar to the lives of those who are lower that middle class in terms of status. The fear
that they have are used upon them by those are higher, in order for them to gain more. As the
naval officer appear, it showed us that there will always be someone who can change the status
quo. As the boys leave the island, everything has changed.
 Vocabulary Words

1. blatant (adjective)

without any attempt at concealment; completely obvious

"The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility." p. 58Ch 4

2. bristle (noun)

a stiff hair

"The circle of boys before him bristled with hunting spears." p. 100Ch 6

3. clamor (noun)

utter or proclaim insistently and noisily

"The clamor broke out. Some of the boys wanted to go back to the beach. Some wanted
to roll more rocks." p. 108Ch 6

4. condemnation (noun)

an expression of strong disapproval

“The derisive laughter that rose had fear in it and condemnation.” pg.86Ch 5

5. corpulent (adjective)

excessively fat

“Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow
forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.” pg.146Ch 7

6. derision (noun)

the act of treating with contempt

“Piggy once more was the center of social derision so that everyone felt cheerful and
normal.” pg.149Ch 7
7. dignity (noun)

the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

“Ralph stood up and walked for the sake of dignity, though with his back pricking, to the
platform.”pg.99Ch 6

8. diminishing (verb)

becoming smaller or less or appearing to do so

“Not scared so much as paralyzed; hung up there immovable on the top of a diminishing,
moving mountain.” pg.123Ch 6

9. discursive (adjective)

tending to cover a wide range of subjects

The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms
to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.pg.92Ch 6

10. ebullience (noun)

eager enjoyment or approval

"Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless
ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch…" p. 38Ch 2

11. flaunt (verb)

display proudly

"A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid
climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top." p. 56Ch 3

12. furtive (adjective)

secret and sly or sordid

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became
less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees." p. 49Ch 3
13. gale (noun)

a strong wind moving 45-90 knots

He went on scrambling and the laughter rose to a gale of hysteria. p 50Ch3

14. gesticulate (verb)

show, express, or direct through movement

“He gesticulated widely.” pg.34Ch 2

15. implication (noun)

something that is inferred

"Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them." p. 70Ch
4

16. improvise (verb)

manage in a makeshift way; do with whatever is at hand

"He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an
improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s
feet." p. 76Ch 5

17. incredulous (adjective)

not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving

“I can’t see no smoke,” said Piggy incredulously. “I can’t see no smoke, Ralph—where is
it?” p. 66Ch 4

18. indignant (adjective)

angered at something unjust or wrong

“I got the conch,” said Piggy indignantly. “You let me speak!” p. 42Ch 2

19. ineffectual (adjective)

not producing an intended consequence

"Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others." p.
79Ch 5
20. inimical (adjective)

not friendly

“To carry he must speak louder; and this would rouse those striped and inimical creatures
from their feasting by the fire.” pg.187Ch 8

21. inscrutable (adjective)

difficult or impossible to understand

"Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the
trail." p. 49Ch 3

22. irrelevance (adjective)

the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand

"Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him." p.
69Ch 4

23. jeer (verb)

laugh at with contempt and derision

"A sound, half-laugh, half- jeer, rose among the seated boys." p. 84Ch 5

24. leviathan (noun)

the largest or most massive thing of its kind

"Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the
water boiled over the table rock with a roar." p. 105Ch 6

25. ludicrous (adjective)

inviting ridicule

"But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains." p. 78Ch 5
26. malevolent (adjective)

wishing or appearing to wish evil to others

"He looked malevolently at Jack." p. 71Ch 4

27. mutinous (adjective)

characterized by a rebellion against authority

" Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering." p. 108Ch 6

28. obscene (adjective)

offensive to the mind

His eyes were half closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the stick.
pg.143Ch 7

29. oppressive (adjective)

weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

"The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day
there was not even the whine of insects." p. 49Ch 3

30. preposterous (adjective)

inviting ridicule

"The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry’s right and fell
in the water." p. 62Ch 4

31. proffer (verb)

present for acceptance or rejection

“The fat boy waited to be asked his name in turn but this proffer of acquaintance was not
made; the fair boy called Ralph smiled vaguely, stood up, and began to make his way
once more toward the lagoon.” pg.9Ch 1
32. prominent (adjective)

conspicuous in position or importance

“He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy
of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward.”
pg.10Ch 1

33. polyp (noun)

a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

“Slowly the waters sank among the rocks, revealing pink tables of granite, strange
growths of coral, polyp, and weed.” pg.105Ch 6

34. queer (adjective)

beyond or deviating from the usual or expected

“Jack cleared his throat and spoke in a queer, tight voice.” pg.117Ch 6

35. recrimination (noun)

mutual accusations

"His voice lifted into the whine of virtuous recrimination." p. 43Ch 2

36. relentless (adjective)

never-ceasing

“Let’s be moving,” said Jack relentlessly, “we’re wasting time.” p. 101Ch 6

37. scornful (adjective)

expressing extreme contempt

“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!” p. 38Ch 2

38. snigger (verb)

laugh quietly

“There were sniggers here and there and swift glances.” pg.80Ch 5
39. snivel (verb)

cry or whine with snuffling

“Then they lay quiet, panting, listening to Robert's frightened snivels.” pg.115Ch 6

40. solemnly (adverb)

in a grave and sedate manner

“The fair boy said this solemnly; but ten the delight of a realized ambition overcame
him.” pg. 8Ch 1

41. speculation (noun)

continuous contemplation on a subject of a deep nature

"Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him." p. 78Ch
5

42. squawk (verb)

make a harsh, abrupt noise

"A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was echoed presently, and
something squawked in the forest." p. 99Ch 6

43. swarthy (adjective)

a dark complexion

“When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the
swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing.” pg. 62Ch 3

44. tacit (adjective)

implied by or inferred from actions or statements

"There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider." p.
55Ch 3
45. ticissitude (noun)

a variation in circumstances or fortune

"Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the
vicissitudes of a day’s hunting." p. 49Ch 3

46. tirade (noun)

a speech of violent denunciation

"By now they were listening to the tirade." p. 45Ch 2

47. tumult (noun)

a state of commotion and noise and confusion

"He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of
the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood." p. 43Ch 2

48. wallow (verb)

roll around

“He would like to have a bath, a proper wallow with soap.” pg.109Ch 6

49. willow (noun)

a tree or shrub of temperate climates that typically has narrow leaves

“He hides behind the willow” pg. 198Ch 11

50. zealot (noun)

a person who is fanatical and uncompromising in pursuit of their religious, political, or

other ideals.

“In our society there are a number of zealots.” pg. 178Ch 10

 Memorable Quotes

Quote 1: "'I don't care what [you] call me so long as...[it's not] what they used to call me in
school...They used to call me Piggy!'" Chapter 1, pg. 11
Quote 2: "[There was] something dark...fumbling along....The creature was a party of boys,
marching approximately in...two parallel lines...." Chapter 1, pg. 18
Quote 3: "[Jack was] tall, thin, and bony...his hair was red beneath the black cap. His face
was...freckled, and ugly without silliness." Chapter 1, pg. 19
Quote 4: "'You're no good on a job like this.'" Chapter 1, pg. 22
Quote 5: "Ralph sat on a fallen trunk, his left side to the sun. On his right were most of the choir;
on his left the larger boys who had not known each other before...before him small children
squatted in the grass." Chapter 2, pg. 30
Quote 6: "'Have you got any matches?'" Chapter 2, pg. 38
Quote 7: "'We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English,
and the English are best at everything.'" Chapter 2, pg. 40
Quote 8: "'You got your small fire all right.'" Chapter 2, pg. 41
Quote 9: "[Jack] tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him
up." Chapter 3, pg. 47
Quote 10: "Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for [the littluns]
the fruit they could not reach...[and] passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands."
Chapter 3, pg. 51
Quote 11: "The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers....Their scent spilled out into the air
and took possession of the island." Chapter 3, pg. 52
Quote 12: "[T]here was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he
[Roger] dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life." Chapter 4, pg.
56
Quote 13: "He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling." Chapter 4,
pg. 58
Quote 14: "[The hunters' thoughts were] crowded with memories...of the knowledge... that they
had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying
drink." Chapter 4, pp. 63-4
Quote 15: "'I painted my face--I stole up. Now you eat--all of you--and I--'" Chapter 4, pg. 67
Quote 16: "Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now,
and could recognize thought in another." Chapter 5, pg. 71
Quote 17: "'Life...is scientific....I know there isn't no beast...but I know there isn't no fear,
either....Unless we get frightened of people.'" Chapter 5, pg. 76
Quote 18: "'[F]ear can't hurt you any more than a dream. There aren't any beasts to be afraid of
on this island....Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!" Chapter
5, pg. 75
Quote 19: "'Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet.'" Chapter 5, pg. 79
Quote 20: "'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'" Chapter 5, pg. 80
Quote 21: "The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away." Chapter 5, pg.
82
Quote 22: "Even the sounds of nightmare from the other shelters no longer reached him, for he
was back to where came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall." Chapter 6,
pg. 89
Quote 23: "[Simon saw] the picture of a human at once heroic and sick....Other people could
stand up and speak to an assembly...without...the pressure of personality; could say what they
would as though they were speaking to only one person." Chapter 6, pg. 93
Quote 24: "'Shove a palm trunk under that and if an enemy came....'" Chapter 6, pg. 96
Quote 25: "'I'm chief. We've got to make certain [that there is no beast]....There's no signal
showing [on the mountain]. There may be a ship out there.'" Chapter 6, pg 98
Quote 26: "'You'll get back to where you came from.'" Chapter 7, pg. 100
Quote 27: "'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'" Chapter 7, pg. 104
Quote 28: "'Use a littlun...'" Chapter 7, pg. 104
Quote 29: "Ralph...was fighting to get near....The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-
mastering." Chapter 7, pg. 104
Quote 30: "'We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?'" Chapter 7, pg. 106
Quote 31: "Ralph...would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only
trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player." Chapter 7, pg. 106
Quote 32: "'[Ralph is] like Piggy....He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.'" Chapter 8,
pg. 115
Quote 33: "Piggy was...so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped
to fetch wood." Chapter 8, pg. 118
Quote 34: "'Right up her ass!'" Chapter 8, pg.123
Quote 35: "'This head is for the beast. It's a gift.'" Chapter 8, pg. 124
Quote 36: "[Simon's] eyes were half-closed as though he were imitating the obscene thing on the
stick." Chapter 8, pg. 130
Quote 37: "'You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no
go? Why things are what they are?'" Chapter 8, pg. 130
Quote 38: "'You're not wanted....on this island!...So don't try [to take] it on...or else....we shall do
you. See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph.'" Chapter 8,
pg. 131
Quote 39: "'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'" Chapter 9, pg. 138
Quote 40: "[The boys] found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure
society. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror [of the
makeshift beast] and made it governable." Chapter 9, pg. 138
Quote 41: "There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws." Chapter
9, pg. 139
Quote 42: "The water rose farther and dressed Simon's coarse hair with brightness. The line of
his cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble." Chapter 9, pg. 140
Quote 43: "[S]urrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath
the steadfast constellations, Simon's dead body moved out toward the open sea." Chapter 9, pg.
140
Quote 44: "'We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.'" Chapter 10,
pg. 143
Quote 45: "'We'd better keep on the right side of [the beast]....You can't tell what he might do.'"
Chapter 10, pg. 146
Quote 46: "What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?" Chapter 10, pg.
150
Quote 47: "'It's come...It's real!'" Chapter 10, pg. 151
Quote 48: "'This is 'jus talk....I want my glasses.'" Chapter 11, pg. 155
Quote 49: "'[We should be] looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed -- after all we
aren't savages really....'" Chapter 11, pg. 155
Quote 50: "A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate
curve [of the shell] like a star." Chapter 11, pg. 156.
 Autobiography
Jay – R S. Cristobal was born in Maypajo, Caloocan City in 1986 and was educated at Maypajo
Elementary School and Caloocan City Science High School – CHS during his elementary and
secondary school respectively. He was the class valedictorian and received numerous awards in
different academic competitions. During his tenure at CCSHS, he was a member of some
academic clubs and the theatre club of the said institution. In 2004, he enrolled at Philippine
School of Business Administration Manila and took BS Accountancy. Unfortunately, he was not
able to finish the program because of financial issues.
He worked as a call center agent in several BPO companies between 2006 – 2009.
He also managed a family business in the field of internet hub.
By the year 2012, he decided to take his bachelor’s degree at University of Caloocan City and
took Bachelor in Secondary Education major in Science. He graduated with honors – cum laude.
He is now taking his post graduate degree ( Juris Doctor) at the same institution.
He is currently working as Academic Head at Systems Plus Computer College.
Aside from being a member of the academe, he is fond of dancing, singing, playing mobile
games like Ragnarok, and an avid fan of the MCU movie franchise.