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LOF
Chapter 8

1. How does Jack view the hunters? How does Ralph view them?

2. Several pages into this chapter why does Jack leave the group?

3. Given the situation, what idea does Simon put forth and what simple idea does Piggy have?

4. Why do most of the bigger boys go off with Jack?

5. What is significant in the following quotation: “The skirts of the forest and the scar were familiar, near the conch and the shelters…”?

6. The author says, “They (the hunters) agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives.” Why does Golding use the words ‘tormented” and “private” to describe them?

7. What is Jack’s plan to get more of the bigger boys from Ralph’s camp? What does he plan for the beast?

8. What effect does the pig hunt and kill have on Jack and the “hunters”?

9. For what expressed purpose do they need to “sharpen a stick at both ends”?

10. After getting over the initial scare, how do most of the boys feel about the raid by the hunters?

11. What indication is there that the savages appear to like their new boss?

12. Ralph asks Piggy why everything broke up, and Piggy says it was Jack’s fault. What is it though, that the pig’s head tells Simon is the reason that “it’s no go. Why things are what they are?”

13. Simon, the most sensitive of the boys, seems, from the first, to have realized the only beast is the beast that is within each of us. The imagined conversation he has with the pig’s head confirms this. What physical condition does the author give Simon to explain his trance?

14. The pig’s head, being surrounded by flies, has become the Lord of the flies. This term, the Lord of the Flies, is also related to Beelzebub, which is another name for the devil. Therefore, what is the link between the beast within each of us and the devil?

15. What threat does the Lord of the Flies make to Simon?