Lord of the Flies Reader Response Questions

LORD OF THE FLIES READER RESPONSE QUESTIONS

NOTE: THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS ARE HIGHER ORDER THINKING QUESTIONS- THIS MEANS YOU MAY HAVE TO RE-READ PASSAGES IN THE CHAPTERS, LOOK UP WORDS IN THE QUESTIONS, ETC IN ORDER TO ANSWER THEM.  YOU CAN ALSO SEE ME FOR HELP AFTER SCHOOL.

117. DESCRIBE THE SETTING OF THE LORD OF THE FLIES.  WHAT IS “THE SCAR”? WHY DOES GOLDING CHOOSE THAT WORD?  FOCUS ON THE DESCRIPTIONS. COMPARE THE FOREST TO THE BEACH; THE LIGHTNESS TO THE DARKNESS.  WHAT OVERALL MOOD IS SET BY THESE DESCRIPTIONS?

118. A SYMBOL IS SOMETHING THAT STANDS FOR OR SUGGESTS SOMETHING LARGER AND MORE COMPLEX (MOST OFTEN AN IDEA OR FEELING) THAN ITSELF.  WHAT DOES THE SCAR SYMBOLIZE? WHAT DOES THE CONCH SYMBOLIZE?  WHAT IS THE TITLE OF THE FIRST CHAPTER AND HOW DOES IT FUNCTION? DESCRIBE THE ISLAND AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ITS SHAPE.

119. DESCRIBE THE PHYSICAL AND PERSONALITY TRAITS OF RALPH, PIGGY, AND JACK.

120. DESCRIBE SAM AND ERIC.  HOW DO RALPH AND JACK TREAT PIGGY?  WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT EACH OF THEIR CHARACTERS?

121. THIS NOVEL IS FILLED WITH MANY CONFLICTS, BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL.  PROVIDE AN EXAMPLE OF EACH TYPE OF EXTERNAL CONFLICT (MAN VS. MAN, MAN VS. NATURE, MAN VS. SOCIETY) AND INTERNAL CONFLICT (MAN VS. SELF). 

122. DOES PIGGY’S PLACE IN THIS SOCIETY SEEM TO BE ANY DIFFERENT FROM HIS PLACE IN ENGLAND?  IN WHAT WAYS IS PIGGY THE VOICE OF REASON? WHY IS IT HARD FOR THE BOYS TO HEAR PIGGY?

123. WHAT DO PIGGY’S GLASSES REPRESENT?  WHAT PART OF SOCIETY DOES PIGGY REPRESENT? 

124. WHAT SOCIETAL ARCHETYPES DO RALPH, JACK, AND SIMON SEEM TO REPRESENT?  IN WHAT WAYS DOES THE AUTHOR CREATE A CHRIST-LIKENESS ABOUT SIMON?

125. DESCRIBE THE INCIDENT BETWEEN MAURICE AND ROGER AND PERCIVAL AND HENRY?  WHY IS ROGER NOT ABLE TO HIT HENRY WITH THE STONES? 

126. CONTRAST RALPH’S AND JACK’S REACTIONS TO MISSING THEIR FIRST CHANCE OF RESCUE.

127. HOW IS RALPH DIFFERENT THAN WHEN HE ARRIVED ON THE ISLAND?  PROVIDE EXAMPLES FROM THE TEXT.

128. EXPLAIN WHAT IS HAPPENING TO RALPH IN THIS STATEMENT FROM CHAPTER SIX, “A STRANGE THING HAPPENED IN RALPH’S HEAD.  SOMETHING FLITTERED THERE IN FRONT OF HIS MIND LIKE A BAT’S WING, OBSCURING HIS IDEA.”

129. WHAT THEME IS DEVELOPING IN THE OPENING PARAGRAPH OF CHAPTER FIVE?  HOW IS THE MEETING IN CHAPTER FIVE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS?  HOW DO THE TOPICS AT THE MEETING REFLECT THE NOVEL’S THEMES?

130. WHAT MIGHT RALPH’S DAYDREAM SYMBOLIZE?

131. THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OR IDEA THAT A WORK CONVEYS IS THE THEME.  HOW DOES THE HUNT ADD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME?  WHERE DOES THE HUNT END? HOW IS THE DECLINE OF JACK AND HIS FOLLOWERS TO SAVAGERY PHYSICALLY DISPLAYED?

132. SIMON IS THE ONLY CHARACTER WHO DOES NOT FEEL MORALITY IS AN ARTIFICIAL IMPOSITION OF SOCIETY.  FROM WHOM MIGHT HE BE A FOIL (CHARACTER WHO IS PREVENTED FROM BEING SUCCESSFUL).

133. RE-READ THE FIRST TWO PARAGRAPHS OF CHAPTER NINE, AND EXPLAIN WHAT THE TITLE MIGHT FORESHADOW.  WHY?  WHAT HAPPENS TO SIMON?  HOW DOES THE LORD OF THE FLIES FORESHADOW THIS (REVISIT CHAPTER 8)?

134. DESCRIBE THE SETTING AS SIMON REACHES THE BEACH.  WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOLIZE?  WHAT IS SYMBOLIZED BY WHAT HAPPENS TO SIMON AT THE BEACH?  WHAT BECOMES OF THE DEAD PARACHUTIST?  WHAT DOES THIS SYMBOLIZE? 

135. CONTRAST JACK’S AND RALPH’S ATTITUDES TOWARDS THEIR APPEARANCE.  THE TWINS SEE RALPH “AS THOUGHT THEY WERE SEEING HIM FOR THE FIRST TIME.”  WHAT DOES THIS STATEMENT IMPLY? 

136. IDENTIFY AND INTERPRET THE FOLLOWING QUOTATION:  “JACK HAD BACKED RIGHT AGAINST THE TRIBE AND THEY WERE A SOLID MASS OF MENACING THAT BRISTLED WITH SPEARS.”

137. IN THE MICROCOSM OF THE ISLAND, WHAT DOES EACH OF THESE BOYS REPRESENT: RALPH, PIGGY, JACK, ROGER, AND SIMON.

138. WHAT IS IRONIC ABOUT THE FIRE THE TRIBE CREATES TO FLUSH OUT RALPH?  WHAT IS IRONIC ABOUT THE RESCUE OF THE BOYS?

139.  WRITE A ONE PAGE REVIEW OF THIS NOVEL.