Lord of The Flies Quotes Collection

Lord of the Flies
Lord of the Flies Quotes Collection

As you are reading the novel, look for quotes or examples from the text that you may want to
use in your final essay. Broad topics that you may want to use for your essay include:
1. Evil in the human heart

2. Key characters and what they represent
3. Key objects and what they represent
4. Civilization and savagery
5. What boys would really behave like
6. Leadership and structure in society
7. Irrational fear and its consequence
8. The mob mentality
9. Another theme or idea that you find in the text which you believe is important
Be sure to completely fill in all of the available fields for each quote or example, because when
you reference your quote you will need that information. The first two are shown as examples,
but please note that the page number might be different than the edition that you are reading.
You should aim for about 20-30 quotes or examples altogether.
You will hand this document in for a completion grade after you have finished reading the novel.
Complete Partially Complete Not Completed
3 4 5 0
Sufficient quotes and Insufficient quotes and Criteria
examples are included; examples are included;
quotes are relevant to the some quotes may not be
topic; quality quotes and relevant to essay topic. Not completed
examples are chosen; page Page numbers may be
references are complete. missing.
Score: /5
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Page # or Kindle Location 41
Speaker Narrator
Theme The mob mentality
Example or Quote “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. … He snatched his knife
out of the sheath and slammed it into a tree
trunk. Next time there would be no mercy.”
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quoted)
Page # or Kindle Location 47-48
Speaker Narrator and boys
Theme Irrational fears
Example or Quote - Little boys are afraid of a “beastie”

- “Beast” could be a symbol for human
evil or fear
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Speaker piggy
Theme Leadership and structure in society
Example or Quote “where is the man with the megaphone? there

was a pilot, but he wasn’t in the passenger
tube”
The boys first thoughts were about someone
of authority, they needed a parental figure+
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quoted)
Speaker Narrator
Example or Quote “The children gave him the same simple

obedience as they had given to the men with
the megaphones”

quoted)
Speaker Narrator
Theme Civilization and savagery
Example or Quote The choir had discarded their cloaks.

This symbolizes the choir joining the rest of
the group and becoming separate from their
old lives.

quoted)
Speaker Narrator
Theme The mob mentality
Example or Quote “The passionate noise of agreement from the

assembly hit him like a wave and he lost his
thread.”
The boys didn’t follow any structure and as
soon as someone broke a rule everyone
would go into chaos.
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Speaker narrator
Example or Quote “and except for a pair of tattered shorts held

up by his knife belt, he was completely
naked.”
Jack and the rest of the boys had begun to
disregard clothing and begun to walk around
partially or completely naked.

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Speaker Ralph
Theme Evil in the human heart
Example or Quote “You’ve noticed it haven’t you?” “I mean the

way things are. They dream. You can hear
‘em”
The children are starting to realize that the
island might not be “good”. They all start to
notice and feel strange things. Which may be
the fact that some of the children are starting
to change at heart.

quoted)
Speaker Piggy and narrator
Example or Quote At the assembly piggy put the idea out that
there was nothing to fear except the other
people on the island. No one was convinced
of this and lots of people laughed at him, but
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he may have been right in believing that the

boys were the ones causing the fear.

quoted)
Speaker Jack, ralph and narrator
Example or Quote Jack begins to talk out of turn at an assembly

and ralph tries to remind him of the rules, but
he says he does not care about them
anymore. He started shouting at the group of
boys telling them that they would hunt the
beast and they all lost control, and everything
went into chaos.

quoted)
Speaker Narrator jack
Example or Quote The boys let ralph go to the beast by himself,

he was seen as the leader of the group. But
jack wanted to be leader and he wanted glory
for himself all throughout the book. Jack
catches up to ralph and says he didn’t want
him to go alone and this may have been
because they wanted to look out for each
other or because jack wanted to have been
the one to kill the beast.
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Speaker ralph
Theme leadership
Example or Quote Many of the boys just wanted to waste time

rolling rocks off the cliff into the sea but ralph
began to become desperate for rescue and
took charge ordering them to go to the
mountain and build a fire

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Speaker narrator
Example or Quote “then there were his nails- ralph turned his
hand over and examined them. They were
bitten down to the quick though he could not
remember when he had restarted this habit
nor any time when he indulged it”
All the boys seemed to pick up old habits the
they had forgotten then they were safe in
civilization

quoted)
Speaker Narrator
Theme leadership
Example or Quote “Ralph sighed, Sensing the rising

antagonism, understanding that this was how
Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead.”
Ralph was the natural chosen leader which
Jack seemed jealous of because all
throughout the book Jack was trying to be tr
the leader.
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Speaker Narrator
Theme Irrational fear and its consequence
Example or Quote “Once more, from a distance, he heard jack

whisper. ‘Scared?’”
All the boys had a fear of the beast even
though none of them had actually seen the
beast. A few saw from afar but they never
fully investigated. And it turns out they were
scared of something that was not a real
beast.

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Speaker Jack
Example or Quote “I’m not going to be part of Ralphs lot-“

The group started to have different ideas, and
they started to split up. The first to go was
Jack who did not like that Ralph was the chief
and how he ran the group.

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Speaker Narrator
Theme leadership
Example or Quote Jack left the group and a few of his hunters
decided to follow his lead. They were loyal to
jack. He became the self-proclaimed chief of
his new tribe of boys.
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Speaker Narrator
Theme Leadership and mob mentality
Example or Quote Almost all the boys went over to jack’s tribe
for meat and ralph saw this as a sign that the
boys began to become savages. They liked
the idea of war paint and hunting

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Speaker Jack
Theme leadership
Example or Quote “Jack stood up and waived his spear. ‘Take

them some meat.’ The boys with the spit gave
Ralph and piggy each a succulent chunk”
Jack had authority over the group, he was
able to order around the group because he
took charge. This move of him telling the boys
to give ralph and piggy meat showed them
that he had power and he was a better
leader.

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Speaker Narrator ralph piggy
Example or Quote The evil within the boys had blinded them.
They all thought Simon was the beast when
he came to the middle of the circle. None of
the boys were thinking straight and they were
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all scared so they killed Simon. Ralph and

piggy had a conversation about their regret
and how they were moving further away from
structure and a proper society.

quoted)
Speaker Roger
Theme leadership
Example or Quote “He’s a proper chief, isn’t he?” Many of the

boys who split off from ralph began to admire
jack and how he was leading. Even though
they were striding further and further from
civilization.

quoted)
Speaker Ralph
Example or Quote “I’m trying to think. Supposing we go, looking

like we used to, washed and hair brushed –
after all we aren’t savages really and being
rescued isn’t a game.”
Ralphs group has always wanted to stay civil
and not transition into savagery like Jack and
his boys.

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Speaker Narrator
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Example or Quote “’but they’ll be painted! You know how it

is-‘the others nodded. They understood only
too well the liberation into savagery that the
concealing paint brought.”
Ralphs group understood and despised the
way jack and his boys descended into
savagery.

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Page # or Kindle Location 200-201
Speaker Narrator
Example or Quote Roger suddenly let his rock defense go. He

killed piggy without any reason other than
resentment. The boys had started to be over
come by their natural evil.

quoted)
Speaker narrator
Example or Quote “These painted savages would go further and

further”
Ralph knew that there was no turning around
for jack’s tribe. They were a lost hope until
they were rescued.

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Speaker Narrator
Example or Quote “’you’re sure he meant in there?’ the twins

moaned faintly and then squealed again. ‘He
meant he’d hide in there?’ ‘Yes-yes-oh-!’
silvery laughter scattered among the trees.
So, they knew.
Samneric told jack where ralph would be
hiding. So, it appears they were loyal to him
not ralph.

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Speaker Narrator
Example or Quote “Squirming a little, conscious of his filthy

appearance, ralph answered shyly.”
Ralph and probably many of the other boys
knew that how some of them acted was
wrong. They never needed to become
savages, but they did because they didn’t
have any self-control.
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1. Evil in the human heart

Complete Partially Complete Not Completed

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct Quote

Page # or Kindle Location 41

Theme The mob mentality

Example or Quote “They knew very well why he hadn’t: because

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Example

Page # or Kindle Location 47-48

Speaker Narrator and boys

Theme Irrational fears

Example or Quote - Little boys are afraid of a “beastie”

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 2

Theme Leadership and structure in society

Example or Quote “where is the man with the megaphone? there

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 14

Theme Leadership and structure in society

Example or Quote “The children gave him the same simple

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Example

Page # or Kindle Location 30

Theme Civilization and savagery

Example or Quote The choir had discarded their cloaks.

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 36

Theme The mob mentality

Example or Quote “The passionate noise of agreement from the

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 48

Theme Civilization and savagery

Example or Quote “and except for a pair of tattered shorts held

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 52

Theme Evil in the human heart

Example or Quote “You’ve noticed it haven’t you?” “I mean the

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Example

Page # or Kindle Location 90

Speaker Piggy and narrator

Theme Evil in the human heart

he may have been right in believing that the

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Example

Page # or Kindle Location 99

Speaker Jack, ralph and narrator

Theme Civilization and savagery

Example or Quote Jack begins to talk out of turn at an assembly

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Example

Page # or Kindle Location 115

Speaker Narrator jack

Theme Leadership and structure in society

Example or Quote The boys let ralph go to the beast by himself,

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly example

Page # or Kindle Location 117

Example or Quote Many of the boys just wanted to waste time

Direct Quotes or Examples (not directly Direct quote

Page # or Kindle Location 119