LORD OF THE FLIES – Chapter three – activities
LoF Ch3 – Jack hunting (p 61-63)
1 Look up two similes the author uses to describe Jack hunting.
2 Take notes on his general appearance.
3 What is he compared to? Why?
4 How does his description from the beginning of chapter three relate to his own words: ‘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 55)
LoF Ch3 - Spot the speech. Who said this and in what context?
1 He’s queer. He’s funny.
2 You and your fire.
3 Never get it done.
4 You’re chief. You should tell ‘em off.
5 As if it wasn’t a good island.
LOF Ch3 - The development of the conflict between Ralph and Jack
1 Find quotes from earlier in the book which sum up Ralph and Jack’s initial attitude to each other. (e.g. pp 31, 39, 51)
2 Ralph and Jack have different priorities. What are they? (p 65)
3 What has Ralph noticed about the ‘littluns’? (p 66)
4 What feelings does Jack share with the ‘littluns’? (p 67)
5 What are the attitudes of Ralph and Jack towards the idea of rescue? (67)
6 What does the author reveal about the relationship between Ralph and Jack in Ch3? Analyse these quotations.
‘They were both red in the face and found looking at each other difficult.’ (p 65)
‘I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!’
(p 68)
They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.’ (p 70)
Simon
1 Where does Simon disappear to at the end of Ch3?
2 What does it suggest about him?
LoF, Ch3 – vocabulary work – fill in the words from the box into the gaps in sentences below:
indignant
spear
sneaked
brimmed
fluttered
considerably
feeble
baffled
barb
He didn't even …………….. when the nurse cleaned the wound.
His …………….. , a sharpened stick about five feet long, trailed from his right hand.
The little lamp gave only a …………… light.
She was completely ………………… by his strange behaviour.
I’ve got to get a ……………… on this spear! We wounded pig and the spear fell out.
He became very ………………………. when it was suggested he had made a mistake.
Then he raised his spear and ……………………. forward.
The leaves came apart and …………………….. down.
His sandy hair was ……………………. lighter and longer than it had been when they dropped in.
Jack took up a coco-nut shell that ……………… with fresh water from among a group that were arranged in the shade.
flinch