Lord of the Flies Chapters 4 5 6

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Lord of the Flies Chapters 4 - 5 – 6 “Painted Faces and Long

Lord of the Flies Chapters 4 - 5 – 6 “Painted Faces and Long Hair” “Beast From Water” “Beast From Air”

Characters • • Ralph Piggy Sam’n’Eric Simon Jack Merridew Roger Maurice Littl’uns (including Henry

Characters • • Ralph Piggy Sam’n’Eric Simon Jack Merridew Roger Maurice Littl’uns (including Henry and Percival)

Key Events • Ship passes by, but the signal fire had been left unattended

Key Events • Ship passes by, but the signal fire had been left unattended • Hunters kill their first pig • Jack breaks Piggy’s glasses • Ralph calls an assembly to re-establish rules • Boys talk of the beast and ghosts • Sam’n’Eric find a dead parachutist on the island • Jack and Ralph set out to investigate the parachutist/beast • Mutiny is brewing

Character Development • Roger and Maurice demonstrate their evil natures by destroying the littluns’

Character Development • Roger and Maurice demonstrate their evil natures by destroying the littluns’ sandcastles; Roger goes further by throwing stones • Jack is still obsessed with hunting • Ralph finds Piggy “a bore…but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg” • Piggy’s glasses breaking: what does this symbolize? Or their ability to light the fire?

Character Development • Simon is the first to show real kindness to Piggy, by

Character Development • Simon is the first to show real kindness to Piggy, by sharing his food • Jack feels powerful after providing meat • Ralph begins to recognize Piggy’s strength as an intellect • Piggy’s beliefs about the beast are practical; Ralph’s beliefs are confused; Simon’s beliefs are philosophical

Chapter Four • Why does Jack mask his face? “He began to dance and

Chapter Four • Why does Jack mask his face? “He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. He capered towards Bill and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness. ” • Why is Ralph so upset about the fire going out? What is it important for?

Chapter Four • The hunters are ecstatic about the killed pig: “He spread his

Chapter Four • The hunters are ecstatic about the killed pig: “He spread his arms wide. ‘You should have seen the blood!’” (Jack)

Chapter Five • Ralph and Jack grow apart as Ralph and Piggy grow closer,

Chapter Five • Ralph and Jack grow apart as Ralph and Piggy grow closer, but Jack still obeys Ralph • “Things are breaking up. I don’t understand why. We began well’ we were happy…Then people started getting frightened. ” (Ralph)

Chapter Six • Sam’n’Eric misread the “sign…from the world of grown-ups” • Ralph’s first

Chapter Six • Sam’n’Eric misread the “sign…from the world of grown-ups” • Ralph’s first response to Sam’n’Eric’s panic is to get Piggy—he is relying on him now • Jack becomes increasingly hostile to Piggy, and by Chapter Six is willfully opposing Ralph’s rules • Jack accompanying Ralph to the “beast”: is this sympathy? Decency? Jealousy?

Motifs • Civilization vs. Anarchy – Piggy: “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Savages?

Motifs • Civilization vs. Anarchy – Piggy: “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Savages? What’s grown-ups going to think? Going off—hunting pigs—letting fires out—and now [ghosts]!” – Ralph: “Because the rules are the only thing we’ve got!” – The boys’ society is beginning to break down, possibly into two camps: Ralph’s and Jack’s

Motifs • Leadership – Ralph and Jack continue to clash, especially over what the

Motifs • Leadership – Ralph and Jack continue to clash, especially over what the boys’ priorities should be – Of Ralph, Piggy, and Jack: “Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere. ” – Ralph: “The trouble was, if you were a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. ” “Only I can’t think. Not like Piggy. ” “Once more that evening Ralph had to adjust his values. ” “Ralph was a specialist in thought now, and could recognize it in another. ”

 • Leadership – Ralph: “If I blow the conch and they don’t come

• Leadership – Ralph: “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 be like animals. We’ll never be rescued. ” Insightful comment—a good leader knows not to test his subjects’ loyalty if there’s a good chance they won’t respond, as that will effectively end his lealdership – Ralph is becoming a wiser, stronger leader, though he is competing with Jack for the boys’ loyalty: “with a violent swing to Ralph’s side [from Jack’s side], the crisis passed. ”

Motifs • The darkness within people – Roger and Maurice destroy the sandcastles, although

Motifs • The darkness within people – Roger and Maurice destroy the sandcastles, although “Maurice still felt the unease of wrongdoing” – Roger throws stones at Henry – Henry “became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. ” – “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Bash her in. ”

Motifs • The loss of innocence – The boys are dealing with grown-up issues:

Motifs • The loss of innocence – The boys are dealing with grown-up issues: survival, hunting, comforting smaller boys, mental instabilities, etc. – Grown-ups are still seen as saviours to idolize (despite what we know adults are really like) – Percival recites his name and address as a comforting technique, but it fails to help him by the end of Chapter Five

Final Thoughts • What is the “beast”? – Jack: “a thing, a dark thing,

Final Thoughts • What is the “beast”? – Jack: “a thing, a dark thing, a beast, some sort of animal…If there were a beast I’d have seen it. Be frightened because you’re like that—but there is no beast in the forest. ” – Piggy: “I know there ain’t no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn’t no fear, either…Unless we get frightened of people. ” – Phil: “I saw something big and horrid moving in the trees. ” (But it was Simon)

 • What is the “beast”? – Percival says the beast comes out of

• What is the “beast”? – Percival says the beast comes out of the sea – The dead parachutist – Simon: “‘Maybe…there is a beast…What I mean is…maybe it’s only us. ’…Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. ” Why does he say this? What is man’s “illness”? – “However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick. ”

Final Thoughts • How is fear affecting the boys? • Simon is going into

Final Thoughts • How is fear affecting the boys? • Simon is going into the jungle at night—why? • Last two lines, after Ralph issues an order: “Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering. Jack led the way down the rock and across the bridge. ”