Lord of the flies quotes worksheet

1. Lord of the Flies Quotes Worksheet
Look at the following quotes. Identify who is speaking and what they are speaking about, or who the quotation
pertains to. Explain what is going on, and what point it may prove with regards to theme, structure, plot, or
characterisation. What does each tell you about the character/situation? When revising, use these as additional
quotes to supplement the ones you already have.
Chapter 1
1. They used to call me Piggy!
2. Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along...Then the creature stepped from
the mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing
3. 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
4. 'You're no good on a job like this.'
Chapter 2
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.
6. 'Have you got any matches?'
7. He says he saw the beastie, the snake thing, and will it come back tonight...he says in the morning it turned
them into things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches
8. '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.'
9. 'You got your small fire all right.'
10. 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
Chapter 3
11. Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for the fruit they could not reach...
passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.
12. He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up
13. The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers... Their scent spilled out into the air and took possession of
the island.
Chapter 4
14. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life.
15. He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling.
16. The mask was a thing of its own, behind which Jack had liberated from shame and self-consciousness
17. 'I painted my face--I stole up. Now you eat--all of you--and I--'
18. Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in
Chapter 5
19. Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize
thought in another.
20. Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!
21. Daddy said they haven't found all the animals in the sea yet.
22. ‘What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?...’
23. 'Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.'
24. The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.
Chapter 6
25. 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
26. 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 7
27. ...hair much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or twig; clothes, worn away, stiff like
his own with sweat, put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body scurfy with
brine
28. 'You'll get back to where you came from.'
29. 'Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!'
30. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.
31. 'We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?'
32. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

2. Chapter 8
33. He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief.'
34. Piggy was... so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood.
35. 'This head is for the beast. It's a gift.'
36. The forest near them burst into uproar. Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out
howling...stark naked save for the paint and a belt was Jack
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?'
I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have
fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else—
Chapter 9
38. 'Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!'
39. They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.
40. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
41. 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.
42. surrounded 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 10
43. We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.
44. You can't tell what he might do.
45. What could be safer than the bus center with its lamps and wheels?
46. 'It's come... It's real!'
Chapter 11
47. 'This is 'jus talk... I want my glasses.'
48. 'after all we aren't savages really...'
49. A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.
50. Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.
51. Ralph--remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.
52. Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization
53. You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!
54. Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?
55. The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white
fragments and ceased to exist.
56. Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed.
57. Roger advanced... as one wielding a nameless authority.
Chapter 12
58. 'They're not as bad as that. It was an accident.'
59. Then there was that indefinable connection between himself and Jack; who therefore would never let him
alone....
60. A star appeared... and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement.
61. Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up.
62. What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.
63. Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?
64. You'll get back.
65. He saw a shelter burst into flames and the fire flapped at his right shoulder.
66. In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun.
67. 'I should have thought that a pack of British boys... would have been able to put up a better show than that.'
68. Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true,
wise friend called Piggy.