"Ralph took the shell from Piggy and a little water ran down his arm. In colour the shell was deep cream, touched here and there with fading pink. Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern"
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The conch is depicted as a precious object, deep cream and fading pink in colour, with a "slight spiral twist" and a "delicate, embossed pattern"
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The conch is depicted as a precious object, deep cream and fading pink in colour, with a slight spiral twist and a delicate, embossed pattern
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The conch is depicted as a precious object, "deep cream" and "fading pink" in colour, with a "slight spiral twist" and a "delicate, embossed pattern"
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The conch is depicted as a precious object, "deep cream" and "fading pink" in colour, with a slight "spiral twist" and a delicate, "embossed pattern"
Q.2.
"Ralph turned to the sea. The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke. Ralph ran stumbling along the rocks, saved himself on the edge of the pink cliff, and screamed at the ship"
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Ralph's horror at the missed opportunity for rescue is shown by his screaming and by the description of the horizon as impersonal once more
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Ralph's horror at the missed opportunity for rescue is shown by his screaming and by the description of the horizon as "impersonal once more"
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Ralph's horror at the missed opportunity for rescue is shown by the "impersonal" horizon and by his "screaming at the ship"
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Ralph's horror at the missed opportunity for rescue is shown by the impersonal horizon and by his "screaming at the ship"
Q.3.
"Simon's head was tilted slightly up. His eyes could not break away and the Lord of the Flies hung in space before him"
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The "Lord of the Flies" is the head of the slaughtered pig mounted on a stick, but its position, hung in space, makes it seem supernatural
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The "Lord of the Flies" is the head of the slaughtered "pig" mounted on a stick, but its position, hung in space, makes it seem supernatural
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The "Lord of the Flies" is the head of the slaughtered pig mounted on a stick, but its position, "hung in space", makes it seem supernatural
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The Lord of the Flies is the head of the slaughtered "pig" mounted on a stick, but its position, "hung in space", makes it seem "supernatural"
Q.4.
"The beast was on its knees in the centre, its arms folded over its face. It was crying out against the abominable noise something about a body on the hill. The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws"
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Simon is shown not to be a "beast", but a "human being", with "knees", "arms", "face" and a "voice". By contrast, the other boys have beastly features, such as "teeth and claws"
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Simon is shown not to be a "beast", but a human being, with "knees", "arms", "face" and a voice. By contrast, the other boys have beastly features, such as "teeth and claws"
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Simon is shown not to be a beast, but a human being, with knees, "arms", face and a voice. By contrast, the other boys have beastly features, such as "teeth and claws"
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Simon is shown not to be a "beast", but a human being, with "knees", "arms", "face" and a voice. By contrast, the other boys have beastly features, such as teeth and claws
Q.5.
"There was no place for standing on one's head. This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon they were a happy, heaving pile in the under-dusk"
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Ralph shows how he feels by playfully standing on his head and "pretending to knock Simon down"
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Ralph shows how he feels by playfully "standing on his head" and "pretending to knock Simon down"
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Ralph expresses the intensity of his emotion by being playful
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Ralph "expresses the intensity of his emotion" by being playful
Q.6.
"'Meetings. Don't we love meetings? Every day. Twice a day. We talk.' He got up on one elbow. 'I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running. Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes then wander off or go hunting"
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Ralph is frustrated by the way the other boys have unrealistic plans when they say we ought "to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set"
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Ralph is frustrated by the way the other boys have unrealistic plans when they say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set
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Ralph implies that the other boys only like to talk and have fun and that their plans are unrealistic
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Ralph implies that the "other boys" only like to "talk" and have fun and that their plans are unrealistic
Q.7.
"On the other side of the island, swathed at midday with mirage, defended by the shield of the quiet lagoon, one might dream of rescue; but here, faced by the brute obtuseness of the ocean, the miles of division, one was clamped down"
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The lagoon is a place of illusion "swathed at midday with mirage", where the boys "might dream of rescue"
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The lagoon is a place of illusion "swathed at midday with mirage", where one might "dream of rescue"
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The lagoon is a place of illusion swathed at midday with mirage, where the boys might dream of rescue
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The lagoon is a place of illusion swathed at midday with "mirage" and where the boys might dream of "rescue"
Q.8.
"In front of them, only three or four yards away, was a rock-like hump where no rock should be. Ralph could hear a tiny chattering noise coming from somewhere - perhaps from his own mouth. He bound himself together with his will, fused his fear and loathing into hatred, and stood up"
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Ralph deliberately creates the feeling of hatred out of fear and disgust: "he fused his fear and loathing into hatred"
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Ralph deliberately creates the feeling of hatred out of fear and disgust: he fused his fear and loathing into hatred
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Ralph deliberately creates the feeling of hatred out of "fear" and "disgust": he "fused his fear and loathing into hatred"
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Ralph deliberately creates the feeling of hatred out of fear and disgust: he "fused his fear and loathing into hatred"
Q.9.
"'Life,' said Piggy, expansively, 'is scientific, that's what it is. In a year or two when the war's over they'll be travelling to Mars and back'"
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Piggy's belief that "life is scientific" does not explain away the fear of the "beast" that the little boys have developed
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Piggy's belief that "life is scientific" does not explain away the fear of the "beast" that the "littluns" have developed
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Piggy's belief that "life is scientific" does not explain away the fear of the Beast that the little boys have developed
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All of the above
Q.10.
"Someone was moaning outside and a babble of voices rose. A fierce argument was going on and the wounded savage kept groaning"
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By the end of the novel, most of the boys have completed a transformation from people with names, to people known by their occupation as hunters, to people known for their wildness, savages
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By the end of the novel, most of the boys have completed a transformation from "people with names", to people known by their occupation as "hunters", to people known for their wildness, "savages"
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By referring to the "wounded boy" as a "savage", Golding emphasises the loss of "civilisation" on the island
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By referring to the wounded boy as a savage, Golding emphasises the loss of "civilisation" on the island
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