Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Lord of the Flies.
…The ground was hardened by an accustomed tread and as Jack rose to his full height he heard something moving on it. He swung back his right arm and hurled the spear with all his strength. (3.5)
“You got your small fire all right.” (2.210)
“Where’s the man with the megaphone?” The fair boy shook his head. “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out in the sea. Perhaps the...
The ground beneath them was a bank covered with sparse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings. Behind this was the darkness of t...
“Shut up,” said Ralph absently. He lifted the conch. “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things.” “A chief! A chief!” “I ought to be chief,R...
"I don't care what they call me,” he said confidentially, “so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me in school.” Ralph was faintly interested. “What wa...
He [Jack] began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling. (4.33)
[Ralph] […] looked at the water with bright, excited eyes. (1.54)
