Lord of the Flies Quotation Analysis

Chapter 1 “Daddy taught me. He’s a commander in the Navy. When he gets leave, he’ll come and rescue us.” – pg.13 “We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting.” – pg.16 “His real name’s Piggy.” pg.21 “All right, choir. Take off your togs.” pg.23

Chapter 2 “We’re on an uninhabited island with no other people on it.” – pg.32 “All the same you need an army – for hunting.” – pg.32 “He still says he saw the beastie. It came and went away again an’ came back and wanted to eat him.” - pg. 36 “Something he had not known was there rose in him and compelled him to make the point…” – pg.37 “We used his specs”… “He helped that way.”- pg.42

Chapter 3 “All day, I’ve been working with Simon. No one else.” – pg. 50 “I thought I might kill.” – pg. 51 “I was talking about smoke. Don’t you want to be rescued?” – pg. 54 “He looked over his shoulder…to confirm that he was utterly alone.” – pg. 56

Chapter 4 “They let the bloody fire go out.” – pg.68 “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” – pg.69 “One side’s broken.” – pg.71 “I cut the pig’s throat.” – pg.75

Chapter 5 “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you anymore than a dream.” (pg.82) “Serve you right if something did get you, you useless lot of cry-babies!” (pg. 83) “Life...is scientific....I know there isn't no beast.” (pg.84) “If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. (pg.92) “Maybe there is a beast....maybe it's only us.” (pg.89)

Chapter 6 “So as the stars moved across the sky, the figure sat on the mountaintop and bowed and sank and bowed again” (96). ‘We’ve seen the beast with our own eyes. No – we weren’t asleep-’”(100) “Ralph pointed fearfully at Eric’s face, which was striped with scars where the bushes had torn him.” (100)

Chapter 7 “You’ll get back to where you came from” (111). “With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment (113). “The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering." (115) “I’m going up the mountain to look for the beast – now…Coming?” (119).

Chapter 8 “…the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream.” (135) ‘If you want to join my tribe come and see us. Perhaps I’ll let you join. Perhaps not’ (140). “The lord of the flies spoke in the voice of a school master” (143). ‘You’re not wanted. Understand. We are going to have fun on this island! (144)

Chapter 9 ‘…And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island’(150). “A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly (152). “Then the clouds opened and let down the rain like a waterfall.” (153) “There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (153).

Chapter 10 “It was an accident….that’s what it was. An accident.” – 157 ‘He’s going to beat Wilfred.” – 159 “The chief was sitting there, naked to the waist, his face blocked out in white and red.” - 160 “I got an awful bloody face, I think, Ralph. But I did him in the end.” – 168 “They didn’t take the conch.” – 168

Chapter 11 “Then the sea breathed again in a long slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock.” – 181 “He obeyed an instinct that he did not know he possessed and swerved over the open space.” – 181

Chapter 12 “Roger sharpened a stick at both ends.” – 190 “I should have thought that a pack of British boys…would have been able to put up a better show than that.” 201 - 202