Lord of the Flies While reading the third

chapter of the novel, fill in

While Reading Chapter all of theboxes below.

While reading chapter 3, you will come across the Q What does this quotation tell us?
following quotations. When you get to one, stop reading Does this link to any important themes?
and discuss it with your group. Discuss the opposite Does this tell us anything important about a
questions for each quotation, and write your group's certain character?
thoughts as notes in the space provided. How does this hint at what might happen in the
novel?
Quote 1: Page 49 53
Quote 3: Page
"Jack himselfshrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and "Jack had to think for a
for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like moment before he could
among the tangle of trees." remember what rescue
in this quote it is telling us how jack is turning into a savage and how was."
since he is stuck on the island it is making him turn into something he this quote is talking about

is not. this also might have something to do with his character how jack is forgetting how

development with if he turns into a savage before everyone else and this it feels to be rescued or he

is similar to the theme of everyone changing because they are stranded on is thinking about how they

the island. may never be rescued from the

island and this might be
51
Quote 2: Page hinting to them not ever
"'Meetings. Don't we love meetings? bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd getting rescued further into
come running. Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would sag we the novel this is also
ought to build ajet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over
telling us more about jack
they'd work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting."'
the quote is telling us how they love meetings I feel like the reason for and how he seems to be going
this is because they need someone to tell them what to do like their crazy and become more
parents for example and the meetings kind of fill that gap. this also barbaric and paranoid.
falls back to the theme of leader ship and how they want a leader and
someone who will tell them what to do in the crisis of being stuck on the
island.

Quote 4: Page 54 Quote 5: Page 55

"I was talking about smoke! Don't you want to be
"They walked along, two continents of
rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!"
experience and feeling, unable to
this is talking about how when they were trying to get communicate."
rescued with the smoke but all jack is thinking about
this quote is talking about how none of the boys
is finding the pig and killing it. The reason why he is
are good at communicating with each other like
so eager to find that pig is so he can prove himself
for example during the fire the boys had no clue
and this pig seems to have something to do with why jack
who survived and how many survivors there was
is turning into a crazy person but I also partially
on the island and they didn't know where the
think that he uses hunting as an excuse to get out of
survivors where if there was any. and this
things a lot.
quote also goes back to the theme of leadership
throughout the book and maybe further into the
book they get better communication skills and
better leadership skills.

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 LORD FLOES
The Anna( Vi+hin
Jack was bent double. He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a Name:
few inches from the humid earth. The tree trunks and the creepers
that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet
above him, and all about was the undergrowth... Then dog-like,
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uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole
forward five yards and stopped... 1.Highlight all of

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Jack crouched with his face a few inches awag from-thiScljé, theh
describe Jack
stared forward into the semi-darkness of the undergrowth. His
sandy hair, considerably longer than it had been when they with animalistic
dropped in, was lighter now; and his bare back was a mass of dark
freckles and peeling sunburn. A sharpened stick about five feet
long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered
shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked. He closed his eyes,
raised his head and breathed in gently with flared nostrils, 2.Add annotations
assessing the current of warm air for information...
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on which animal
At length he out his breath in a long sigh and opened his eyes.
let
They were bright blue, eyes that in this frustration seemed bolting each highlighted
and nearly mad. He passed his tongue across dry lips and section brings to
scanned the uncommunicative forest Then again he stole forward mind.
and cast this way and that over the ground.

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.
Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest
descriptions and
of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a
harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages. Jack
word choice, how
himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a does the author
minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among want us to view
the tangle of trees. Then the trail, the frustration, claimed him
Jack? List three
again and he searched the ground avidly...
character traits
The droppings were warm. They lay piled among turned earth. gleaned from this
They were olive green, smooth, and they steamed a little. Jack section.
lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper
that lay across the trail. Then he raised his spear and sneaked
forward... The ground was hardened by an accustomed tread and
as Jack rose to his full height he heard something moving on it. He
swung back his right arm and hurled the spear with all his
strength. From the pig-run came the quick, hard patter of hoofs, a
castanet sound, seductive, maddening-the promise of meat. He
rushed out of the undergrowth and snatched up his spear...

Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown

earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting. Swearing,
he turned off the trail and pushed his wag through until the forest
...Jack took up a coconut shell that brimmed with fresh water from
among a group that was arranged in the shade, and drank. The
water splashed over his chin and neck and chest. He breathed
noisily when he had finished.