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LOTF Ch. 7-9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does Ralph do that shows his longing for civilization during this chapter? | He explains that he could use a bath, haircut, toothbrush, and toilet. |
| Who hit the boar with his spear? | Ralph |
| Why does Ralph call Simon “batty”? | Because he thinks he is crazy |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| How many boys begin the climb up the mountain and who goes? | 3; Jack, Ralph, Roger |
| What does Jack see on top of the mountain? | The beast |
| Why does Jack call for the vote? What is the result of the vote? | Calls for a vote about who thinks Ralph should not be leader anymore; no one voted |
| What does Simon suggest the group do? | Climb up the mountain |
| What is Piggy's intellectually daring suggestion? | They build the signal fire on the beach |
| 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 |
| 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 to the beast |
| Why is Simon in the glade with the sow's head? | He went to the glade to escape into his nature spot |
| 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 thinks Jack wants the conch because it represents order and acting civilized; he is wrong because Jack does not care about order, he craves chaos and savagery |
| What was the "cannon" that "continued to play" throughout chapter 9? | The Thunder |
| 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. |
| How are Ralph and Piggy received when they join Jack and the other boys? | Jack welcomes them and tells them to eat |
| Who sat, like an idol, painted and garlanded, in the center of the lawn? | Jack |
| What is Jack's status at this point in the book? | He has control of his hunters and most of the boys because of the meat and savagery of his new tribe |
| At the party, who acted like the pig? | Roger |
| What happens to Simon when he arrives on the beach? | The boys mistake him for the beast and start attacking him and kill him |
| What happened to the parachutist? | Its body is flown out to sea since Simon released the tangled parachute |
| Who was killed because the boys thought he was the beast? | Simon |
| Light traditionally symbolizes order and safety, while dark serves as a symbol of chaos and danger. Why do they ascend the mountain in the dark and how would their expedition have been different had they gone in the daylight? | In Chapter 7, Ralph Jack, and Roger climb up the mountain in the dark because Jack wanted to intimidate Ralph. Their expedition would been different if they had ascended the mountain in the daylight |
| Explain the significance of the following words from the end of Chapter 8: "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!... You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?" Who/What is speaking to Simon? What do they say or explain to him? | In Chapter 8, Simon is hallucinating about the pig head talking to him was Lord of the Flies. The beast saying "Fancy think the Beast was something you could hunt and kill" saying that they can't kill the beast because it's not real. The quote "You knew, |
| 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 struggle between order and chaos is big. Civility and order are in Ralph, Simon, and Piggy. But chaos and savagery are in Jack and his hunters. Because chaos and savagery were mostly present civility and order Simon was killed because th |
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