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Jada Lee

Lord Of The Flies Quote Sheet
Chapter 1 –
“The boy with fair hair” p
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“The fat boy hung steadily at his shoulder
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“He took off his glasses and held them out to Ralph, blinking and smiling
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“The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the
upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings
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“Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the
open sea was dark blue
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“water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat
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“He became conscious of the weight of clothes, kicked his shoes off fiercely and ripped off
each stocking with its elastic garter in a single movement
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“and stood there among the skull-like coco-nuts with green shadows from the palms and
the forest sliding over his skin” p
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” p
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We ought to have a meeting
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“They used to call me ‘Piggy’
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“Sche-aa-ow” p
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“Daddy taught me
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” p
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” p
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“That’s why you got the conch out of the water?” p
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” p
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Something was being done
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“Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, nay-like creature that danced on the sand, and
only later perceived the body above it
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“Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along
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“Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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He was intimidated by this uniformed superiority and the off-hand
authority in Merridew’s voice
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28
“Secure on the other side of Ralph, Piggy spoke timidly
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28
“Why should I be Jack? I’m Merridew
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28
“Shut up, Fatty
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“Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things” p
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“I ought to be chief,” said Jack with simple arrogance, “because I’m chapter chorister and
head boy
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“Vote for chief!” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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“He hovered between the two courses of apology or further insult
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“Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon
they were a happy heaving pile in the under-dusk
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“This belongs to us
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“Inside was peacock water, rocks and weed showing as in an aquarium; outside was the
dark blue of the sea
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“Eyes shining, mouth open, triumphant, they savoured the right of domination
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“All ours
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“When Simon mentioned his hunger the other became aware of theirs
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“The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward
stroke would be” p
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” p
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” p
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“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
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41
“Next time there would be no mercy
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”
p
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“Jack slammed his knife into a trunk and looked round challengingly
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“We’ll have to have ‘Hands up’ like at school
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“And he won’t be interrupted
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” p
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“Piggy put on his glasses
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“Piggy, partly recovered, pointed to the conch in Ralph’s hands and Jack and Simon fell
silent
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” p
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It’s a good island
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p
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“Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to
lie under the trees
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” p
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“like a crowd of kids-----” p
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” p
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“We ought to have more rules
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The same up here as
down there
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“Piggy opened his mouth to speak, caught Jack’s eye and shut it again
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“I agree with Ralph
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After all, we’re not savages
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So we’ve got to do the right things
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“All at once, they were aware of the evening as the end of light and warmth
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“Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch
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Chapter 3 –
“Then dog like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward
five yards and stopped
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61
“Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue, then stared forward into the
semi-darkness of the undergrowth
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61
“The forest and he were very still
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“Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath; and for a minuet became less
a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees
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“We want meat
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65
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up
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65
“We need shelters
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“We need shelters because of the------” p
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” p
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” p
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“Don’t you want to be rescued? All you talk about is pig, pig, pig!” p
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” p
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He’s funny
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“They walked along, two continent of experience and feeling, unable to communicate
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“They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate
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“Simon found them fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up the foliage,
passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands
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Chapter 4 –
“The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk
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“Piggy discounted all this learnedly as a “mirage”; and since no boy could reach even the
reef over the stretch of water where the snapping sharks waited, they grew accustomed to
these mysteries and ignored them, just as they ignored the miraculous, throbbing stars
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“At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun hazed down like an angry
eye
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74
“Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play and food right through the
day, made it impossible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm
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“They suffered untold terrors in the dark and huddled together for comfort
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“Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones
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” p
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At the back of his mind formed the uncertain outlines of an excuse
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“Roger stopped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry---threw it to miss
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“When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness
of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing
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“Jack planned his new face
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“He looked in the mere for his reflection, but his breathing troubled the mirror
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“He looked in astonishment, no longer at himself but at an awesome stranger
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“He capered towards Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness
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“The mask compelled them” p
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“He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow
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“The rest were shock-headed, but Piggy’s hair still lay in wisps over his head as though baldness were his natural state, and this imperfect covering would soon go, like velvet on a
young stag’s antlers
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“There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not
only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labour
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“Simon looked now, from Ralph to Jack, as he had looked from Ralph to the horizon, and
what he saw seemed to make him afraid
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86
“Kill the pig
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Spill her blood
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86
“Piggy snivelled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in
church
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“Jack, his face smeared with clays, reached the top first and hailed Ralph excitedly, with
lifted spear
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86
“Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him
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“I cut the pigs throat
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” p
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“He flushed, conscious of a fault
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“His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them
when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing,
imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink
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“Jack, faced at once with too many awful implications, ducked away from them
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“There was a ship----” p
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” p
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” p
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“Now I only got one eye
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“The buzz from the hunters was one of admiration at this handsome behaviour
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“Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened
elsewhere
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“I got you meat!” p
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Cut her throat
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” p
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” p
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“” p
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maybe its only us
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“Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express man-kinds essential illness
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“I got the conch!” p
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“Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!” p
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“If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it
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“If you don’t blow, well soon be animals anyway
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“The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved
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“I dunno
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” p
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“He had fallen asleep after what seemed hours of tossing and turning noisily among the dry
leaves
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“Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace
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“He held the shell up instead and showed it to them and they understood
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“It faced out, rather than in, and the spears of sharpened wood were like a fence
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“Course I’m frightened
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“And another thing
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“We don’t need the conch anymore
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” p
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” p
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I’ll go
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Chapter 7 –
“He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it
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” p
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” p
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“faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down,
one was helpless, one was condemned, one was---” p
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You’ll get back all right
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” p
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That was the beast, I think!” p
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“Use a littlun,” p
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” p
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” p
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“The boys stirred uneasily, as though something indecent had been said
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“The pig-track was a dark tunnel, for the sun was sliding quickly towards the edge of the
world and in the forest shadows were never far to seek
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147
“I’m going up the mountain
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” p
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” p
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“The darkness seemed to flow round them like a tide
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“what use was the three of them, handicapped by the darkness and carrying only sticks?”
p
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” Ralph heard the mockery and hated Jack
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” p
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” p
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” p
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Maybe its asleep
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“Green lights of nausea appeared for a moment and ate into the darkness
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“Before them, something like a great ape was sitting asleep with its head between its
knees
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Chapter 8 –
“So we can’t have a signal fire…We’re beaten
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“The sound of the inexpertly blown conch interrupted them
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” p
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“He’s like Piggy
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He isn’t a proper chief
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“Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?” p
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Not with you
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“There’s no help
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Nothing to be done
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“I think we ought to climb the mountain
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“What else is there to do?” p
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“We could experiment
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Some of them leaves must be better for that than others
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“And another thing
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“But now I’m going to get more of the biguns away from the conch and all that
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“He was happy and wore the damp darkness of the forest like his old clothes
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“They were just behind her when she staggered into an open space where bright flowers
grew and butterflies danced round each other and the air was hot and still
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“But we’ll leave part of the kill for…” p
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” p
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It’s a gift
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” p
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”
p
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After a while these flies
found Simon
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” p
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” p
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” p
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What are we going to do?” p
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I mean…
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173
“Piggy rubbed his glasses slowly and thought
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” p
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Perhaps not
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“He was safe from shame or self-consciousness behind the mask of his paint and could look
at each of them in turn
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174
“The Chief has spoken
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“Simon’s body was arched and stiff
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” p
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I’m going to get waxy
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Understand? We are
going to have fun on this island
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Chapter 9 –
“Over the island the build-up of clouds continued
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” p
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” p
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He crawled forward and soon he understood
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“The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible
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“He laughed at Piggy, expecting him to retire meekly as usual and in pained silence
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” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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He
looked down from behind his paint at Ralph and Piggy
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185
“Ralph watched the fire as he ate
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“All sit down
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“Who is going to join my tribe?” p
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And we were going to keep the fire going
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“And the conch doesn’t count at this end of the island---” p
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” p
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” p
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“Come away
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And we’ve had our
meat
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186
“Do our dance! Come on! Dance!” p
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” p
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“The movement became regular while the chant lost its first superficial excitement and began to beat like a steady pulse
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“There was the throb and stamp of a single organism
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“The circle became a horseshoe
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It came darkly, uncertainly
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The beast stumbled
into the horseshoe
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“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!” p
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It was crying out
against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill
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188
“At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed,
stuck, bit, tore
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“There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws
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188
“Then the clouds opened and let down the rain like a water-fall
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” p
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Even in the rain they could see how small
a beast it was; and already its blood was staining the sand
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“Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and trickle of water that ran
out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island
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189
“The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as
the great wave of the tide flowed
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” p
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The line of his
cheek silvered and the turn of his shoulder became sculptured marble
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“Softly, surrounded by a fringe of inquisitive bright creatures, itself a silver shape beneath
the steadfast constellations, Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea
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Chapter 10 –
“the fragile white conch still gleamed by the polished seat
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“Simon” Piggy said nothing but nodded, solemnly
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“The green light and the glossy patches of sunshine player over their befouled bodies
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“That was Simon
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“That was murder
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“I wasn’t scared,” said Ralph slowly, “ I was---I don’t know what I was
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“Ralph, cradling the conch, rocked himself to and fro
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“You were outside
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You never really came in
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“Look, Ralph
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We can’t do no good thinking about it, see?” p
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” p
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We was on the outside
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p
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” p
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” p
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p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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You remember how he crawled---” p
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“We don’t want another night without fire
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“This was the first time he had admitted the double function of the fire
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” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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“What could be safer than the bus centre with its lamps and wheels?” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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From his left
hand dangled Piggy’s broken glasses
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Chapter 11 –
“after all we aren’t savages really and being rescued isn’t a game---” p
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I’ll show him the one thing he hasn’t got
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“The others nodded
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” p
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!” p
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I’ll go first , then Piggy a pace behind me
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Piggy peered anxiously into the luminous veil that hung between him and the world
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“Savages appeared, painted out of recognition, edging round the ledge towards the neck
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Ralph went on blowing, ignoring Piggy’s terrors
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“Ralph! Don’t leave me!” p
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“Jack made a rush and stabbed at Ralph’s chest with his spear
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“Who’s a thief?” p
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By common consent they were using the spears as sabres now, no longer daring the lethal points
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“You come on and see what you get!” p
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” p
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You aren’t playing the game----” p
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” p
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”
p
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” p
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His head
opened and stuff came out and turned red
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“Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed
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223
“the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the
body of Piggy was gone
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223
“See? See? That’s what you’ll get! I meant that! There isn’t a tribe for you anymore! The
conch is gone---” p
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” p
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” p
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” p
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“Listen, Ralph
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That’s gone--” p
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” p
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He’s a terror
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“----only Roger---” p
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” p
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“They had smoked him out and set the island on fire
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“Fun and games,” said the officer
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