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| What do Ralph and his group plan to do to get Piggy's glasses back? Why are they so concerned about how they will look whey they go to meet Jack's group? | They want to go looking nice with their hair brushed and cleaned to show that they are not savages and that they mean business about being rescued. |
| Explain what this passage meant, "They understood too well the liberation into savagary that concealing paint brought" | Boys lost their identity when they painted their faces. They acted like a group of savages. |
| Is the rivalry between the groups a game? Do the boys think it is serious? | It is not a game. The boys start to become violent with each other. Jack was definitely not playiing by the rules. |
| Why doesn't Jack's group worry about a signal fire? | They wanted to hunt and kill him |
| What is Jack's response to Ralph's question, "Which is better-law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up?" | He witnessed Piggy death and said, "That's what you get. There isn't a tribe for you anymore. The conch is gone. I am chief." He would rather hunt and break things up. |
| What is the symbolic meaning of the shattered conch? | end of democracy and order on the island |
| How is Piggy killed? | Roger with a sense of delirious abandonment leaned all his weight on a lever that released a great rock. The rock struck Piggy and Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. |
| Why does Jack force Samneric to join his tribe? | He wants to show of his authoritarian power to threaten and terrify others to follow him. He does not want any difference of opinion. |
| Why does Ralph know he's an outcast? | Because he had some sense. Samneric were now part of the tribe. They were guarding Castle Rock against him. There was no chance of rescuing them and building an outlaw tribe at the other end of the island. Samneric were savages. Piggy was dead. The conch was smashed into powder. |
| How doe Jack plan to kill Ralph? How does Ralph find out about the plan? | Ralph and Roger are going to hunt him. The tribe will spread out in a line across the island and go forward from this end until they find Ralph. They have to give signals if they spot him. Samneric told Ralph. |
| What do you think Ralph could do to protect himself? | He could carry a sharpened spear, hide, or climb. |
| What was the purpose of the stick sharpened on both ends? | Put Ralph's head on a stake like the pig and spear him |
| Explain what Jack does to force Ralph out of the thicket? | He tried to smoke him out of the woods and set the island on fire. |
| Why and how are the boys rescued? | by a naval officer |
| What do you think would have happened to Ralph if the officer had not intervened? What would have happened to the rest of the boys? | He would have been caught and killed. The others would also eventually die. |
| Does the officer believe Ralph about the boys who are killed? What did he expect from the British boys? | Yes. The officer knew as a rule when people were telling the truth. He though that the British boys would have been more civilized and orderly |
| Why does Ralph break down? What doe he realize about mankind in general? | Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy. |
