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LOF
Chapter 9

1. Explain Simon’s actions.

2. In this chapter, what are signs of Jack’s power?

3. Quote an example of personification used in this chapter.

4. What, besides the neat, attracts the others and Ralph, too, to Jack’s life? What is “our dance”?

5. What comes out of the darkness of the forest? What happens?

6. What happens to the body in the parachute?

7. How does the chanting “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!” enable the boys to deal with their fear of the beast?

Chapter 10

1. Piggy says that the killing of Simon was an accident not murder, and that they are not to blame. Do you think this is true or not? Explain.

2. When Ralph says, “I’m frightened. Of us,” what does he mean that frightens him?

3. Are Sam, Eric, Ralph and Piggy being truthful?

4. What is an example of Jack’s abuse of power? What words are used to emphasize the hunter’s status?

5. What trappings of religion do Jack and the boys seem to have appropriated?

6. How can this type of behavior and thinking be explained?

7. In the raid, why are Piggy’s glasses taken but not the shell?