Lord of The Flies – Part 2

Piggy leaned down to him.

5 "What's yer name?"

"Johnny."

Piggy muttered the name to himself and then shouted it to Ralph, who was not interested
10 because he was still blowing. His face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this
stupendous noise, and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake. The shouting in the
forest was nearer.

Signs of life were visible now on the beach. The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze,
15 concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the
platform through the hot, dumb sand. Three small children, no older than Johnny, appeared
from startlingly close at hand, where they had been gorging fruit in the forest. A dark little
boy, not much younger than Piggy, parted a tangle of undergrowth, walked on to the
platform, and smiled cheerfully at everybody. More and more of them came. Taking their cue
20 from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited. Ralph
continued to blow short, penetrating blasts. Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and
frowning to remember them. The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had
given to the men with megaphones. Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-
naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed, or jerseyed.
25 There were badges, mottoes even, stripes of colour in stockings and pullovers. Their heads
clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy,
mouse-coloured; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and
speculated. Something was being done.

30 The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they
crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand. Here, the eye was first attracted to a black,
bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it. The bat
was the child's shadow, shrunk by the vertical sun to a patch between the hurrying feet. Even
while he blew, Ralph noticed the last pair of bodies that reached the platform above a
35 fluttering patch of black. The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung
themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs. They were twins, and the
eye was shocked and incredulous at such cheery duplication. They breathed together, they
grinned together, they were chunky and vital. They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed
provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred, and their mouths
40 pulled open. Piggy bent his flashing glasses to them and could be heard between the blasts,
repeating their names.

"Sam, Eric, Sam, Eric."

45 Then he got muddled; the twins shook their heads and pointed at each other and the crowd
laughed.

At last Ralph ceased to blow and sat there, the conch trailing from one hand, his head bowed
on his knees. As the echoes died away so did the laughter, and there was silence.

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50 Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along. Ralph saw it first
and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way. Then the creature stepped
from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly
clothing. The creature was a party of boys, marching approximately in step in two parallel
lines and dressed in strangely eccentric clothing. Shorts, shirts, and different garments they
55 carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it. Their
bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on
the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill. The heat of the tropics,
the descent, the search for food, and now this sweaty march along the blazing beach had
given them the complexions of newly washed plums. The boy who controlled them was
60 dressed in the same way though his cap badge was golden. When his party was about ten
yards from the platform, he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in
the fierce light. The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak
flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness.

Hambone frill

Answer the following questions.

1. From lines 8-9, ‘His face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this
stupendous noise’, explain in your own words the meaning of the phrase and why his
face was that way.

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2. From lines 14-15, ‘appeared from startlingly close at hand’, explain why the writer
used the word ‘startlingly’.

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3. From lines 17-18, ‘Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny’, why do you think the
other children had to take cue from Johnny?

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4. From lines 20-21, ‘The children gave him the same simple obedience that they had
given to the men with megaphones.’, explain the comparison that is being made in
your own words.

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5. From line 25, ‘Something was being done’, what does the word ‘something’ refer to?

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6. From lines 28-29, ‘leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to
nearer sand’, why weren’t the children visible before?

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7. Look at the underlined phrase.

The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and
lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.

Tick ( ) one box to show what technique is being used here.

Alliteration ( )
Irony ( )
Personification ( )
Simile ( )

8. From line 45, ‘At last Ralph ceased to blow and sat there,’ explain in your own
words the meaning of the phrase and why he did so.

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9. From line 56, ‘the complexions of newly washed plums.’, what does the phrase mean
and why were the boys as such?

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 10. Match each word to its closest meaning according to the passage.
a) gorging (line 15)
A gathering B gobbling C giving D nibbling

b) speculated (line 25)

A stared B wondered C laughed D smiled

c) muddled (line 42)

A enlightened B bewildered C furious D silent

d) intentness (line 49)

A seriousness B shallowness C troublesomeness D
inquisitiveness

e) vaulted (line 61)

A walked B locked C flew D leaped

11. Form sentences using each of the words in bold.

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Complete the sentences with one of the words or phrases

however as though in case to some

extent
as if whenever anywhere everywhere
the same way by the time soon no matter
as soon as considering in order to as long as

1. __________ he came to the desert, the sun had drawn its curtains close and he found
himself
alone.

2. __________ after he heard the great news, he phoned his best friend.

3. __________ hard he tried, he still couldn't understand the Mathematics equation.

4. They took ice-axes with them __________ they needed to cut steps in the ice.

5. We have nothing to fear from those bullies __________ we keep our nerve.

6. __________ they heard the bell, the cows herded back towards the barn.

7. You have to dismantle the sewing machine __________ as the instructor did.

8. __________ he looked, there were signs of forced entry into the house.

9. She behaved __________ she thought she was being followed.

10. __________ that this is Harry's first painting, he has created a rather impressive piece of
art.

11. He obtained a trade license __________ export his products to Germany.

12. "It looks __________ the same man is linked to both crimes." said the detective.

13. While I accept your arguments __________, I cannot support the decision you are
making.

14. “Let’s grab a cup of coffee together _____________ you’re free,” said John to Mary.

15. You can carve your wood sculpture __________ you like.

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16. These mushrooms can be found __________ in the wild during fall, they aren’t rare
mushrooms.

Based on the passage – Lord of The Flies, write a short essay about what happens after
the boy jumps onto the vault.

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