Lord of the Flies Quotes

"Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem. 'If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. ...We'll never be rescued.'"

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• The boys are experiencing real fear.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• The rules are very important to Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

"How can we be rescued except by luck, if we don't keep a fire going? Is the fire too much for us to make?"

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• The boys are experiencing real fear.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The fire is important to Ralph.

"He moved the conch gently, looking beyond them at nothing, remembering the beastie, the snake, the fire and the talk of fear."

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• The boys are experiencing real fear.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The boys are beginning to act like animals.

"The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. They were chanting something and littuns that had had enough were staggering away, howling.

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• The boys were beginning to act like animals.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The rules were very important to Ralph.

"If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again; it's like asthma an' you can't breathe. I tell you what. He hates you too."

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• The boys are experiencing real fear.

• The rules were very important to Ralph.

"I don't understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then-"

• The rules are very important to Ralph.

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The boys are beginning to act like animals.

"At once the platform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams and laughter. The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight."

• The rules are very important to Ralph.

• Jack leads the boys away from Ralph.

• The fire is important to Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The boys are beginning to act like animals.

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."

• The rules are very important to Ralph.

• The society on the island is breaking down.

• The fire is important to Ralph.

• Piggy is afraid of Jack.

• The boys are beginning to act like animals.