LOTF Chapters 7-8

​Chapter 7
"Shadows and Tall Trees"

Chapter 7 "Shadows and Tall Trees"

This chapter opens with Ralph, Jack, and the other boys on the pig run. They are hunting.

Multiple Choice

Which word or phrase best describes the hygiene DECORUM on the island?

• very cleanly

• a main priority

• questionable

Hygiene

Ralph spends the first few sentences of the chapter looking at himself.

He notices how grimy, filthy, and unkempt he has become and he longs to clean himself up.

This shows Ralph is still retaining many of those "human" and "normal" qualities that the many of the boys are losing.

Multiple Choice

At the beginning of Chapter 7, before speaking with Simon, Ralph looks out to the ocean and feels __________.

• rejuventated

• very cheerful

• calm and meditative

• mostly hopeless

Ralph was puzzled and searched Simon's face for a clue.

"It's so big, I mean―" Simon nodded.

"All the same. You'll get back all right. I think so, anyway."

Some of the strain had gone from Ralph's body. He glanced at the sea and then smiled bitterly at Simon.

"Got a ship in your pocket?"

Simon grinned and shook his head.

"How do you know, then?"

When Simon was still silent Ralph said curtly, "You're batty."

Simon shook his head violently till the coarse black hair flew backwards and forwards across his face. "No, I'm not. I just think you'll get back all right."

For a moment nothing more was said. And then they suddenly smiled at each other.

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Read the above passage to answer the question on the next slide.

Open Ended

Based on the previous passage, how would you describe Simon and Ralph's relationship? Why would you characterize it that way?

Jack leads the hunts, with the other boys grouped together out of fear of the beast.

Ralph is loitering towards the back and stops to daydream about his life before the island.

The Hunt

There are pig droppings on the trail so the boys are excited that a pig is near. However, they mention that they are not just hunting pigs; they are still looking for the beast too.

Multiple Select

Which word or phrase would best describe Ralph's life before the island?

Select TWO!

• comfortable

• stressed

• ideal

• depressing

Read the following passage.
The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming. Ralph saw Jack nudged aside and fall. Then there was a creature bounding along the pig track toward him, with tusks gleaming and an intimidating grunt.
Ralph found he was able to measure the distance coldly and take aim. 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. The boar's note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert. The pig-run filled with shouting boys again, Jack came running back, and poked about in the undergrowth.

A pig appears...

Fill in the Blank

Based on the previous passage, who has possibly hit or injured a pig?

Multiple Choice

What DOES NOT happen after the spear is thrown?

• Ralph wants everyone to believe him and looks for a witness.

• Simon tells everyone he killed the pig.

• Maurice nods his head in agreement of who wounded the pig.

• Jack claims he "walloped" the beast and has a wound.

"I hit him," said Ralph again, "and the spear stuck in a bit." He felt the need of witnesses.

"Didn't you see me?"

Maurice nodded. "I saw you. Right bang on his snout―Wheee!"

Ralph talked on, excitedly. "I hit him all right. The spear stuck in. I wounded him!"

He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.

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Read the above passage.

Ralph's Need

Open Ended

Why do you think Ralph feels such a "need" or desire for someone to witness him hitting the pig with his spear?

Multiple Choice

Who gets dragged into the hunter's circle and is threatened with a knife?

• Piggy

• Robert

• Ralph

• Simon

Fill in the Blank

Finish the war chant: "Kill the pig! Cut his ______! Kill the pig! Bash him in!"

Read the passage.

"We ought to have a drum," said Maurice, "then we could do it properly."

Ralph looked at him. "How properly?"

"I dunno. You want a fire, I think, and a drum, and you keep time to the drum.

"You want a pig," said Roger, "like a real hunt."

"Or someone to pretend," said Jack.

"You could get someone to dress up as a pig and then he could act―you know, pretend to knock me over and all that."

"You want a real pig," said Robert, still caressing his rump, "because you've got to kill him."

"Use a littlun," said Jack, and everybody laughed.

Multiple Choice

In the previous passage, the boys are describing a "hunting" ____________.

• strategy

• game

• adventure

• question

Poll

As the boys move back to walking the island, what do they seem most concerned with?

• Restarting the fire

• Killing a pig

• Finding the beast

• Getting back to Piggy

Multiple Choice

As the boys continue to move through the jungle, they reach a very rocky and treacherous part which makes passage almost impossible.

• True

• False

​"We can't leave the littluns alone with Piggy. Not all night."

The other boys said nothing but stood round, watching him.

"If we went back we should take hours."

Jack cleared his throat and spoke in a queer, tight voice. "We mustn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?"

Ralph tapped his teeth with the dirty point of Eric's spear.

"If we go across―"

He glanced round him.

"Someone's got to go across the island and tell Piggy we'll be back after dark."

Bill spoke, unbelieving. "Through the forest by himself? Now?"

"We can't spare more than one."

Read the passage.

Multiple Choice

Who volunteers to go into the forest alone?

• Jack

• Robert

• Simon

• Ralph

Open Ended

What question does Ralph ask Jack that makes all the boys uneasy and is left unanswered?

Draw

Draw an arrow on the map to show where Jack and Ralph go. Jack is surprised the Ralph agrees to follow him here. a

Multiple Choice

What do the boys see at the top of the mountain?

• An ape like beast

• The dead parachuter's body

• A rock

• A frog

Chapter 8
"Gift for the Darkness"

Fill in the Blank

This chapter opens with the boys, including Ralph, telling Piggy that they saw the _________.

Multiple Choice

What does Jack do that shocks the boys, especially Ralph?

• Agrees with Piggy

• blows the conch for a meeting

• hits Ralph

"Hunting," said Jack. He remembered his age-old tremors in the forest. "Yes. The beast is a hunter. Only― shut up! The next thing is that we couldn't kill it. And the next is that Ralph said my hunters are no good."

"I never said that!"

"I've got the conch. Ralph thinks you're cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. And that's not all."

There was a kind of sigh on the platform as if everyone knew what was coming. Jack's voice went up, tremulous yet determined, pushing against the uncooperative silence.

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Read the passage.

Open Ended

After the previous speech, what does Jack say about Ralph?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following does Jack NOT say is a reason that Ralph is not a good chief?

• He's not a hunter.

• He isn't a prefect.

• He betrayed the boys' trust.

• He never got the tribe meat.

• He just gives orders and expects people to obey.

Draw

Jack calls for a vote of how many people think Ralph should not be chief anymore.

Draw the number of boys that initially agree with him and an emoji to describe how Jack feels in that moment.

Multiple Choice

What do the boys decide to move between the bathing pool and the platform?

• meetings

• the weapons

• Jack's items

• the signal fire

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion. Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack's departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood. The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the sanctity of the platform had protected even what was useless there. Then the twins realized they would have a fire near them as a comfort in the night and this set a few littluns dancing and clapping hands.

​Read the passage.

Poll

Why do you think Piggy is so happy in the previous passage?

• His idea was popular.

• The boys are following his lead.

• He is free of Jack's teasing.

Multiple Choice

After the boys make a smaller fire, what do they realize about some of the other older boys?

• They are swimming, not working.

• They are being mean to the littleuns.

• They have left the platform.

Open Ended

What is happening on the other side of the island as Ralph, Piggy, and the twins have their feast?

Multiple Choice

Which phrase best describes the hunt of the sow?

• calm and easy

• disorganized and uneventful

• cheerful and silly

• focused and violent

Read the passage closely.

At last the immediacy of the kill subsided. The boys drew back, and Jack stood up, holding out his hands.

"Look."

He giggled and flicked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff over his cheeks. Roger began to withdraw his spear and boys noticed it for the first time. Robert stabilized the thing in a phrase which was received uproariously.

Open Ended

Which event, from earlier in the book, does the previous scene mimic or imitate?

Fill in the Blank

Fill in the blank: "Jack spoke loudly. 'This head is for the beast. It's a _________.' "

Draw

Somewhere on the image, write how this scene made you feel.

Multiple Select

Check anything that Jack says or does when his tribe raids the platform.

• He offers to anyone to attempt to join his tribe.

• He steals the conch.

• He says they are having a feast.

• He is emboldened or made more confident by his "mask".

Simon's body was arched and stiff. The Lord of the Flies spoke in the voice of a schoolmaster.

"This has gone quite far enough. My poor, misguided child, do you think you know better than I do?"

There was a pause.

"I'm warning you. I'm going to get angry. D'you see? You're not wanted. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island. Understand? We are going to have fun on this island! So don't try it on, my poor misguided boy, or else―"

Simon found he was looking into a vast mouth. There was blackness within, a blackness that spread. "

―Or else," said the Lord of the Flies, "we shall do you? See? Jack and Roger and Maurice and Robert and Bill and Piggy and Ralph. Do you. See?"

Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness.

The Lord of the Flies

Open Ended

What do you make or think of the Simon's "conversation" with the Lord of the Flies? What do you think is happening here?