| piggy quotes and meanings | "What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What's grownups going to think?" - this shows that piggy is afraid of the boys ascending into savegery
"Acting like a crowd of kids!" - this quotation shows piggy's adult maturate and intellect
"Give me my specs!" - this quotations shows how piggy is inferior to the other bigguns |
| jack quotes and meanings | "Sharpen a stick at both ends." - the inference behind this quote is that jack wants to put ralphs head on the stick and offer it to the beast
"i ought to be chief...because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp." - this quote shows that jack has always been someone who thought he has been the best since the start |
| ralph quotes and meanings | "Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well; we were happy." - this quote shows that ralph can see how the boys are becoming more savage and losing the main moral which they had at the start of the island
"Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!" - this quote demonstrates ralphs angriness when the hunters let the signal fire out |
| simon quotes and meanings | "We used [Piggy’s] specs...He helped that way." - this quote from Simon really shows his kindness towards piggy as he is looked down on by the rest
"I wanted—to go to a place...just a place I know. A place in the jungle" - this quotation links how the boys thought simon was the beast because he went of at night - foreshadowing the later events when the boys actually did kill him for being the 'beast' |
| what is the item of democracy in lord of the flies? | the conch |
