1. Kids names, said Merridew. Why should I be Jack? I m Merridew (21).

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1 1. Kids names, said Merridew. Why should I be Jack? I m Merridew (21). 2. None of the boys could have found good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy, while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees was set apart (22). 3. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth (31). 4. Ralph s right of course. There isn t a snake-thing. But if there was a snake we d hunt it down and kill it. We re going to hunt pigs to get meat for everybody. And we ll look for the snake too (36). 5. Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship, adventure, and content. Almost too heavy. Jack grinned back. Not for the two of us. Together, joined in an effort by the burden, the staggered up the last steep of mountain. Together, they chanted One! Two! Three! and crashed the log onto the great pile (39). 6. Jack pointed suddenly. His specs use them as burning glasses! Piggy was surrounded before he could back away (40). 7. Startled, Ralph realized that the boys were falling still and silent, feeling the beginnings of awe at the power set free before them. The knowledge and the awe made him savage. Oh, shut up! I got the conch, said Piggy, in a hurt voice. I got the right to speak (44). 8. That little un gasped Piggy him with the mark on his face, I don t see him. Where is he now? (46). 9. The best thing we can do is get ourselves rescued. Jack had to think for a moment before he could remember what rescue was. Rescue? Yes, of course! All the same, I d like to catch a pig first He snatched up spear and dashed it into the ground. The opaque mad look came into his eyes again. Ralph looked at him critically through his tangle of fair hair (53). 10. Here, invisible yet strong was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law. Roger s arm was conditioned by a civilization that knew nothing of him and was in ruins (62). 11. The trouble was, if you were to be a chief you had to think, you had to be wise. And then the occasion slipped by so

2 that you had to grab at a decision. This made you think; because thought was a valuable thing, that got results (79). 12. Ralph shouted. Hear him! He s got the conch! What I mean is... maybe it s only us (89). 13. What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What s grownups going to think? Going off hunting pigs letting fires out and now! (91). 14. Ralph summoned his wits. Because the rules are the only thing we ve got! But Jack was shouting against him. Bollocks to the rules! We re strong we hunt! If there s a beast, we ll hunt it down! We ll close in and beat and beat and beat! (91). 15. 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. If you don t blow, we ll soon be animals anyway. I can t see what they re doing but I can hear (92). 16. Grownups know things, said Piggy. They ain t afraid of the dark. They d meet and have tea and discuss. Then things ud be all right (94). 17. You re always scared. I got the conch Conch! Conch! shouted Jack. We don t need the conch anymore. We know who ought to say things. What good did Simon do speaking, or Bill, or Walter? It s time some people knew they ve got to keep quiet and leaving deciding things to the rest of us (102). 18. [T]here were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out, though not even a faint popping came down from the battle fought at ten miles height. But a sign came down from the world of grown-ups, though at the time there was no child awake to read it (95). 19. Simon, walking in front of Ralph, felt a flicker of incredulity a beast with claws that scratched, that sat on a mountaintop, that left no tracks and yet was not fast enough to catch Samneric. However Simon thought of the beast, there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick (103). 20. Let s have a fort. There s no food here, said Ralph, and no shelter. Not much fresh water (108). 21. Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of the brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering (114-5).

3 22. The silence continued, breathless and heavy and full of shame. Slowly the red drained from Jack s cheeks, then came back with a painful rush. He licked his lips and turned his head at an angle, so that his gaze avoided the embarrassment of linking with another s eye. How many think His voice trailed off. The hands that held the conch shook. He cleared his throat, and spoke loudly. All right then. He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet. The humiliating tears were running from the corner of each eye. I m not going to play any longer. Not with you (127). 23. I think we ought to climb the mountain (128). 24. This head is for the beast. It s a gift (137). 25. The sow collapsed At last the immediacy of the kill subsided. The boys drew back, and Jack stood up, holding out his hands. Look. He giggled and flicked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms. Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff over his cheeks (135). 26. The fire s the most important thing. Without the fire we can t be rescued. I d like to put on war-paint and be a savage. But we must keep the fire burning. The fire s the most important thing on the island because, because He paused again and the silence became full of doubt and wonder. Piggy whispered urgently. Rescue (142). 27. Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. You knew, didn t you? I m part of you? Close, close, close! I m the reason why it s no go? Why things are what they are? (143). 28. The beast was harmless and horrible; and the new must reach the others are soon as possible. He started down the mountain and his legs gave beneath him. Even with great care the best he could do was stagger (147). 29. Before the party had started a great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol (149). 30. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring, and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws (153). 31. I wasn t scared, said Ralph slowly, I was I don t know what I was (156).

4 32. I m frightened. Of us. I want tot go home. Oh God, I want to go home (157). 33. Yes. We were very tired, repeated Sam, so we left early. Was it a good The air was heavy with unspoken knowledge. Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him. dance? Memory of the dance that none of them had attended shook all four boys convulsively. We left early. 34. I know. They didn t come for the conch. They came for something else. Ralph what am I going to do?... The chief led them, trotting steadily, exulting in his achievement. He was a chief now in truth; and he made stabbing motions with his spear. From his left hand dangled Piggy s broken glasses (168). 35. You can take spears if you want but I shan t. What s the good? I ll have to be led like a dog anyhow. Yes, laugh. Go on, laugh. There s them on this island as would laugh at anything. And what happened? What s grownups goin to think? Young Simon was murdered. And there was that other kid what had a mark on his face. Who s seen him since we first come here? I m going to him with this conch in my hands. I m going to hold it out. Look, I m goin to say, you re stronger than I am and you haven t got asthma. You can see, I m goin to say, and with both eyes. But I don t ask for my glasses back, not as a favor. I don t ask you to be a sport, I ll say, not because you re strong, but because what s right s right. Give me my glasses, I m going to say you got to! (171). 36. But they ll be painted! You know how it is. The others nodded. They understood only too well the liberation into savagery that the concealing paint brought. Well, we won t be painted, said Ralph, because we aren t savages. Samneric looked at each other. All the same Ralph shouted. No paint! (172-3). 37. You re a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief! (179). 38. The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist (181). 39. The skull regarded Ralph like one who knows all the answers and won t tell. A sick fear and rage swept through him. Fiercely he hit out at the filthy thing in front of him that bobbed like a toy and came back, still grinning into his face, so that he lashed and cried out in loathing... the skull lay in two pieces, its grin now six feet across (185). 40. Roger sharpened a stick at both ends (190). 41. Think. What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch.

5 Think (196). 42. He forgot his wounds, his hunger and his thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach (200). 43. It was white-topped cap, and above the green shade of the peak was a crown, an anchor, gold foliage. He saw white drill, epaulettes, a revolver, a row of gilt buttons down the front of the uniform. A naval officer stood on the sand, looking down at Ralph in wary astonishment. On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings. In the stern-sheets another rating held a sub-machine gun (200). 44. But there was more to come. Percival Wemys Madison sought in his head for an incantation that had faded clean away (201). 45. I am, said Ralph loudly. A little boy who wore the remains of an extraordinary black cap on his red hair and who carried the remains of a pair of spectacles at his waist, started forward, then changed his mind and stood still (201). 46. I should have thought that a pack of British boys you re all British, aren t you? would have been able to put up a better show than that I mean I know. Jolly good show. Like the Coral Island (200). 47. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy (202).