Chapter 12

1. Who is referred to as the outlaw at the beginning of Chapter 12 and why?

2. What does Ralph do to “The Lord of the Flies”?

3. Who are the new members of Jack’s tribe in Chapter 12?

4. What has Jack planned to do to Ralph?

5. Why does Roger “sharpen a stick at both ends”? For what specific reason?

6. Where does Ralph hide and what is a result of this?

7. What, specifically, does Jack’s tribe do to the island?

8. What does Ralph reflect upon at the end of the novel?

9. What happens to Ralph and the rest of the boys at the end of the novel? 

Chapter 11

Write your responses into your Google Document for Lord of the Flies

1. Why does the tribe of the conch go to Castle Rock?

2. What symbolic event happens to the conch?

3. Name three moments of irony during their visit to Castle Rock?

4. Who kills Piggy and why?

5. What are the two options mentioned by Ralph and Piggy?

6. Who is taken prisoner and will be tortured by Roger at the end of Chapter 11?

Homework- Finish reading Lord of the Flies.

Chapter 9 and 10

Chapter 9- Respond to these questions in your Google Document.

1. What change has Simon gone through?  Why is “the usual brightness gone from his eyes?”  You may answer this with a scientific explanation or a deeply philosophic reason.  Each are acceptable and valid.

2.  What is the figure that he encounters and what does he realize?

3.  What is “the beast?”

4.  What are Ralph and Piggy doing at the beginning of Chapter 9?

5. Where has everyone but Piggy and Ralph gone?  What are they doing?

6.  Where do Piggy and Ralph eventually go?

7.  What argument does Jack make for being leader?  What argument does Jack make for being leader?  What reasons does each of them give for the rest of the boys to follow them?

8.  When it begins to rain, what do all of the boys begin to do?  What movement, specifically?  What are they collectively referred to as?

9.  What crawls out of the forest?  Who crawls out of the forest?  What mistaken identity takes place?  What clue is given at the bottom of page 152?  What happens to this beast?

10.  During the storm, where does the figure on the mountaintop move to?

11.  Where does the “beast” go?

12. Paragraph- Write a short paragraph on Simon’s fate.  If he is a representation or symbol of kindness, then what comment is William Golding, the author of Lord of the Flies, making on humanity in the novel.  How is Simon’s fate symbolic?


Reading from:
Chapter 10

1. What is the “unspoken knowledge” between the tribe of the conch?

2. What do the savages steal from the tribe of the conch?

3. What does Jack promise his tribe?

4. Why is the small boy, Wilfred, to be beaten? What is the reason given by Roger?

5. How many savages are sent on the mission to steal from the tribe of the conch? What do they steal?

Homework- Finish reading Chapter 10.  Read Chapter 11.
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