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LOTF CH.7-9 Study G
Chapter 7-9 Guide
Question | Answer |
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Ch.7-What does Ralph do that shows his longing for civilization during this chapter (Select all that apply) | 1. He recalls a flashback of home and the books he read 2. He explains that he could use a bath, haircut, toothbrush, and toilet |
Ch.7-Who hit the boar with his spear? | Ralph |
Ch.7-Why does Ralph call Simon "Batty"? | Because he thinks he is crazy |
Ch.7-During the "Mock hunt" with Robert at the center, how does it turn from fun to savagery? | The boys start grabbing and poking Robert with the spears and he hurts his bottom |
Ch.7-Why does Simon leave the group? Where is he going? | He left to tell the other boys that they would not return until after dark |
Ch.7-How many boys begin the climb up the mountain and who goes? | 3; Jack, Ralph, Roger |
Ch.7-What does Jack see on the top of the mountain? | The beast |
Ch.8-Why does Jack call for the vote? What is the result of the vote? | Jack calls for a vote about who thinks Ralph should not be leader anymore: no one voted |
Ch.8-What does Simon suggest the group do? | Climb up the mountain |
Ch.8-What is Piggy intellectually daring suggestion? | They build the signal fire on the beach |
Ch.8-After the boys build a fire, who do they discover to be missing?Where did they go? | Roger, Maurice, Bill and other Bigguns; Went to Jack's camp |
Ch.8-What plan does Jack explain to the boys? What will they find, what will they do with it, and how is the beast involved? | Says they will ignore the beast, go hunt and kill a pig, and leave some of it as an offering for the beast |
Ch.8-Why is Simon in the glade with the sow's head? | He went to the glade to escape into his nature spot |
Ch.8-Piggy says, "When I saw Jack, I was sure he'd go for the conch, Can't think why." Why do you think Piggy believes this and why is Piggy so wrong? | Piggy face Jack wants the conch because it represents order and acting civilized; he is wrong because Jack does not care about order he craves chaos in Savagery |
Ch.9-What was the "cannon" that "continued to play" throughout chapter 9? | The Thunder |
Ch.9-When Simon wakes up where does he go, what does he see, and what does he understand? | He goes up the mountain, he sees what the boys call "the beast", and he understands that the beast is not a beast, but an allusion and just a dead body. |
Ch.9- How are Ralph and Piggy received when they join Jack and the other boys? | Jack welcomes them and tells them to eat |
Ch.9- Who sat, like an idol, painted and garlanded, in the center of the lawn? | Jack |
Ch.9- what is Jack's status at this point in the book? | He has control of his hunters and most of the boys because the meat and savagery of his new tribe |
Ch.9- At the party, who acted like the pig? | Roger |
Ch.9- what happened to Simon when he arrived on the beach? | The boys mistake him for the Beast and start attacking him and kill him |
Ch.9- what happened to the parachutist? | Its body is flown out to see since Simon released the Tangled parachute |
Ch.9- who was killed because the boys thought he was the Beast? | Simon |
Ch.7- Light traditionally symbolizes order and safety, while dark serves as a symbol of chaos and danger. Why do they exceed the mountain in the dark and how would their expedition have been different they gone in the daylight? | In chapter 7, Ralph, Jack, and Roger climb to the mountain at night because Jack is saying that he will go up the mountain now and not wait till morning and called Ralph scared. Ralph says he isn't scared, so he agrees to climb up the mountain with Jack, |
Ch.8- explain the significant of the following words form the end of chapter 8: " fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!...You knew, didn't you? I'm apart of you." Who / what is speaking to Simon? What do they say and explain why. | In chapter 8, When Simon goes to escape from reality and goes to his nature spot, he sees jack put a pig head on a stick. Simon wonders to the pig and falls into a sow with the pig's head. The pig explains to Simon that it's the beast and you can't hunt o |
Ch.9- this chapter shows a clear struggle between order and civility on one side and chaos and Savagery on the other. Explain the struggle between these forces and use examples from the text to support your answer. | In Chapter 9, the boys are struggling between order/civility and savagery/chaos on the island between two characters (Simon and Ralph). During the chapter, Simon, the order/civility, discovers that the so-called beast is just a dead parachutist, and he is |