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Lord of the Flies
Lord of the flies
Chapter 7

Page 119-120
Even though Ralph is the chief, he's happy to follow Jack
-shows Ralph has a sense of moral awareness
'If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny converts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the best out of mind and dream for a while'
-Force of nature reflects emotion
Ralph starts to think about hygiene and cleanliness
-Looks for a toilet
-Looks for a toothbrush

Page 121-125
Ralph starts acting crazy
Simon seems like a Holy Spirit and has a hypnotic element to him
-Extra perspective
-Calm, reassuring vibe
-Uses symbolism
Ralph's vivid memory's come back and are still in the back of his mind
-Feeling of nostalgia
-Ordered
-Longing to go home to his family
Calm disrupted by the boys running after boars 'You ought to suck it. Like Berengaria'
-Benegaria was the queen of Richard the Lionheart during the crusades. King Richard was hit by a poison arrow and Benegaria sucked the poison out of it.
The pig ran away like the memory's of Ralph's
Wounding is a very symbolic act because it's suggesting
-Injury
-Cut
-emotional wounding

Page 124
Simon
Compare the ways in which piggy and simon attempt to prevent the boys from descending into savagery:
PIGGY
-the debates over the resue fires and shelters
-Simons attempts attempts to discover the truth about the beast
-Piggys intelligence and how the boys reject his suggestions
-The deaths of piggy and simon
-Early encounters with piggy set in our minds the type of character he is for the rest of the book.
-'I was the only boy in our school who had asthma'
-Endlessly talking of his auntie
-His failed attempts at getting his point access
-His strong opinions and vast general knowledge
-Voice of reason
SIMON
He has a kind nature and he helps the little children find fruit
He has a powerful understanding of the fears the

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