English 9 Lord of the Flies Chapters 2 & 3

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1 Group 5: CHARACTERIZATION: JACK Chart the changes in Jack s character. Find specific lines from the text to illustrate the changes and to describe Jack s emerging personality. Change Change Jack Change Change

2 CHARACTERIZATION: SIMON Find specific examples from the text for each example. Some examples may have more than one example, while others may not have any. Be thorough in your responses. How he looks: His behavior/actions: His thoughts/feelings: Simon What he says: Others actions toward him: What is your reaction to the character? What do you predict will be his role in the novel?

3 GROUP 2: CHARACTER INTERACTIONS Describe the interactions and relationships between the following characters. Find specific examples from the text, including at least 3 specific quotes from the text for each pair to illustrate their relationships and interactions. Be sure to include page numbers. Piggy and Ralph Ralph and Jack Piggy and Jack

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5 GROUP 4: QUESTIONS Please answer the following questions using specific examples from the text. 1. What is significant about the concept of a beastie? Why does Ralph insist the beastie does not exist? 2. Why does Jack tell the boys his hunters will seek out the beastie? What does this do to Ralph s authority? 3. How are the concepts of fear/authority and chaos/order developed in the novel? 4. Why do most of the boys dislike Piggy? What traits of a good leader does Piggy possess? Why is he unable to earn the respect of the boys? 5. Why does Golding have the boy with the birthmark become the first casualty? 6. What is the significance of the last two pages of chapter 2? 7. What evidence of passing time is evident in chapter 3? 8. What evidence of the boys regression and / or degeneration can you find? 9. What is Simon like? Discuss his actions, particularly at the end of chapter 3. What is your impression of him? How does he treat Piggy? Where does he fit in the developing conflicts? 10. Find specific examples and events that develop the theme of social order.

6 GROUP 1: Close Reading Respond to the following quotations from the novel. Explain their significance, as you see it, to the overall story and / or explain what the quote reveals about the characters, the conflict, and the themes in the novel. If applicable, predict what the quote may be foreshadowing regarding future events. One of the responses has been completed as a model. Only one person needs to record the response. Please use pen and give the response to the teacher at the end of the class period. Ralph was annoyed and for the moment defeated. He felt himself facing something ungraspable. The eyes that looked at him so intently were without humor (p. 37). He [Ralph] paused, with the point made. The assembly was lifted toward safety by his words. They liked and now respected him. Spontaneously they began to clap and presently the platform was loud with applause. Ralph flushed, looking sideways at Piggy s open admiration, and then the other way at Jack who was smirking and showing that he too knew how to clap (p. 37). Ralph is slowly beginning to grow into his role as the leader. The responsibility involved in his position as leader is evident in the word safety. Although Ralph was doing handstands because he was excited to be free from adult rules and adult supervision, he has learned that life on the island is more than fun and games. Ralph s flushing indicates that he is humble and perhaps a bit uncomfortable with the zealous nature of the response. Piggy is proud of Ralph, and although he has always seemed to like Ralph, the admiration indicates that Piggy truly respects Ralph, which is significant considering the fact that Piggy is very intelligent and reasonable. Piggy is easy to dislike, but he is trustworthy to the reader, so his admiration for Ralph is shared by the reader. Jack s smirk indicates that he s not as enthusiastic about Ralph having the power as the other boys are. There also seems to be a bit of sarcasm involved in the last line, which subtly escalates the conflict between Jack and Ralph and threatens the fragile sense of order that is established. I agree with Ralph. We ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we re not savages. We re English, and the English are best at everything. So we ve got to do the right things (p. 42).

7 They looked at him [Piggy] with eyes that lacked interest in what they saw, and cocked ears at the drum-roll of the fire. Piggy glanced nervously into hell and cradled the conch (p. 44). If you re hunting, sometimes you catch yourself feeling as if He flushed suddenly. There s nothing in it of course. Just a feeling. But you can feel as if you re not hunting, but being hunted, as if something s behind you all the time in the jungle (p. 53). He [Ralph] wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were (p. 54) They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate. All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again (p. 55).

8 GROUP 3: INTERPRETING Select one word from each chapter that you think is the most important word. Explain your reasons for choosing the word, the significance of the word, and how the word connects to the concepts in the novel (fear, innocence, identity, vision, power, social order). Each response should be at least one page in length. Please use pen and give the response to the teacher at the end of the class period. CHAPTER 2: SELECTED WORD: EXPLANATION:

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10 GROUP 3: INTERPRETING Select one word from each chapter that you think is the most important word. Explain your reasons for choosing the word, the significance of the word, and how the word connects to the bigger ideas in the novel. Each response should be at least one page in length. Please use pen and give the response to the teacher at the end of the class period. CHAPTER 3: SELECTED WORD: EXPLANATION:

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