Die Seitenzahlen in der Tabelle beziehen sich auf die ELT-Ausgabe, die 1999 in der 17. Auflage erschienen
ist.
| chapter |
pages |
(main) characters |
contents |
comment / questions |
| 1) The Sound of the Shell | 7-34 | Ralph, Piggy, Jack Merridew |
- introduction of main characters:
Ralph: boy with fair hair
Piggy: fat boy, eyeglasses, asthma, tells his bullying-name “Piggy”, refers to his “auntie” because his father=dead, mother seems to be dead, too ⇒ living with his aunt (sweet-shop)
- atom bomb (p.14): “They’re all dead.”
- island
- blowing a conch they found
- children gathering: Johnny, Sam, Eric (twins), Simon (“skinny vivid little boy” (p. 25))
- Jack Merridew and the choir
- “Vote for a chief!” (p. 24 l. 2)
- Jack wants to be the leader but Ralph is elected ⇒ choir = army/hunters
- expedition of three boys: Ralph, Jack, Simon (prove that this is an island) ⇒ lonely island, “uninhabited” (p. 32)
- no grown-ups
- piglet! Jack can’t kill it but does the grand. Jack: “waiting […] to decide where to stab” but: “They knew very well why he hadn’t: […] enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh […]” (p. 34)
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omniscient narrator knows what the characters think / how they feel |
| 2) Fire on the Mountain | 35-51 | Ralph, Jack, Piggy |
- Ralph blowing the conch ⇒ second assembly
- rules (p. 36), “’Hands up’ like at school”, no interruptions while sb. is talking
- Piggy: nobody knows where we are
- “plane was shot down in flames. Nobody knows where we are. We may be here a long time” (p. 37)
- snake-thing, “beastie came in the dark” (p. 39) ⇒ they don’t believe
- Ralph’s father: “in the Navy” (p. 41 middle)
- “make a fire” to be found (p. 41 bottom)
- Piggy: They behave “like kids”! (p. 42 top)
- pile for a fire, using Piggy’s eyeglasses as a burning glass (p. 44 bottom)
- Jack modifies rules arbitrary: “The conch doesn’t count on the top of the mountain” (p. 46 middle) ⇒ Piggy awed (p. 47 top)
- “special people for looking after the fire” (p. 46 bottom) ⇒ choir responsible for keeping the fire going (p. 47 middle)
- Roger: “Perhaps we’ll never be rescued” (p. 47 bottom) ⇒ Ralph bolsters: “We will be rescued someday” ⇒ wait.
- Piggy: “bitter realism” (p. 48 top)
- fire spreads! “smoke was rising here and there among the creepers” (p. 48 middle)
- Piggy knew about the dangers. Jack: “You’re always scared, […] Fatty!” (p. 49 middle)
- shelters
- Piggy as accuser: “You […] set the whole island in fire. […] Ralph was chief and you don’t give him time to think” (p. 50 middle)
- Piggy: the “little ‘un […] with the mark on his face” is missing (p. 51 middle)
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Piggy wiping his glasses – he often does that (p. 14 middle, p. 37 top)
Piggy: conch ⇒ “right to talk” (49) ⇒ faint position, dependent on the obedience to the rules |
| 3) Huts on the Beach | 52-62 | Ralph, Jack, Piggy |
- Jack: sandy hair; hunting for pigs
- shelters (⇒Simon); water is found
- Jack can only think of meat and nothing else (p. 56)
- Ralph: need shelters ⇒ argument
- Jack feels hunted when he is on hunt (p. 57 middle)
- Simon = “queer / funny” (p. 59 bottom)
- Jack/Ralph: “unable to communicate”, “love and hate” (p. 60 top)
- Simon hides in the jungle to be alone (p. 61)
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at first long description without dialogues |
| 4) Painted Faces and Long Hair | 63-82 | Ralph, Jack, Piggy |
- “accept”, “grew accustomed” (p. 63)
- littlun Percival (mouse-colored, not very attractive even to his mother (p. 65 middle)), littluns about 6 years old, life of their own, eating all the day (p. 64)
- “castles in the sand” built by the littluns (e.g. Henry)
- Johnny: well built, “fair hair and natural belligerence”
- Roger destroys castles by kicking them, Maurice follows (p. 65 middle)
- painted faces ⇒ “for hunting. Like in the war.” (p. 68 middle)
- Sam+Eric = Samneric (p. 69)
- Jack: “bloodthirsty snarling” (p. 69 middle)
- Piggy: make a clock / sundial (p. 70 middle)
- Piggy = “always clumsy” (p. 71 middle)
- “violence”! (p. 73 middle)
- a ship!
- fire dead (p. 73 bottom)
- Jack: tall, red-haired (p. 74 middle)
- procession: “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.” (75)
- hunters killed a pig (p.74/75)
- missed the ship because the hunters didn’t care for the fire (accuse (76 bottom))
- p. 77 top: Jack’s to blame that they can’t go home “You and your blood, Jack Merridew!”
- Jack hits Piggy (p. 77 bottom), one glass = broken although Simon managed to get the glasses back
- Jack apologizes for letting the fire go out (p. 78 bottom)
- Ralph asserted his chieftainship (79 middle)
- Piggy gets no meat but Simon gives him his piece (p. 80)
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at first long description without dialogues (63-68)
Piggy rubbing glasses again (p. 71 bottom) |
| 5) Beast from Water | 83-103 | Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon |
- assembly: rules must be obeyed
- “rocks right along beyond the bathing-pool as a lavatory” (p. 87 middle)
- fire must be kept alight
- “smoke is more important than the pig”, hunters! (p. 88)
- “no fire anywhere but on the mountain” (p. 88 bottom)
- fear of the beast, but regarded as “nonsense” (p. 89 bottom)
- Piggy: “life is scientific” (p. 92 top)
- littlun Phil: dream: sth. in the trees
- Simon went into the jungle at night ⇒ considered as beast ⇒ so he shouldn’t do that again in order to avoid more fear (p. 93)
- “beast comes out of the sea” (p. 96 top)
- “speak in assembly was a terrible thing” for Simon (p. 97 top)
- Simon: The beast is only us! (p. 97 middle) mankind’s essential illness
- discussion about ghosts (p. 98)
- “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?” (p. 99 bottom)
- Jack doesn’t care about the rules any more (p. 100 top)
- Jack doesn’t exist Ralph as leader any more. Piggy refers to the adults, Jack’s group leaving
- Ralph wants to give up being chief but Piggy argues him out of doing that (p.101)
- Piggy: no hope with Jack as chief
- Simon, Ralph, Piggy left ⇒ Ralph: “three blind mice”
- Piggy worries about his fate if Jack becomes the chief (102)
- wish help of adults (102)
- “Grown-ups know things” / “not afraid” / “meet and have tea and discuss” ⇒ things be “all right” (p.103 top) Important: Is this right...?! (No! ⇒ “sign from the world of grown-ups”, next page)
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at first long description without dialogues
nice short summary of postulations (p. 89 top) |
| 6) Beast from Air | 104-119 | Ralph, Jack |
- “sign from the world of grown-ups” ⇒ “bright explosion across the sky” (p. 104)
- parachute / figure
- Samneric sees the dead parachutist ⇒ beast ⇒ run to Ralph (107/108)
- hunt the beast
- Jack: “We don’t need the conch any more” (p. 111 middle)
- Piggy stays at the base
- castle ⇒ fort
- Simon: “I don’t believe in the beast.” (p. 115 top)
- Ralph: rock accommodation is not sensible!
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at first description |
| 7) Shadows and Tall Trees | 120-136 | Ralph, Jack |
- Simon: Ralph, you will get back all right (p. 122 middle)
- dreams of being home (“cornflakes” etc.) (p. 123)
- Ralph hit a pig with a spear (p. 124)
- bad play with Robert ⇒ hurting! “Kill him! Kill him!” (p. 126) ⇒ “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” [game…]
- Jack: use a littlun as a pig to kill (p. 127)
- Simon suggests that he can go through the jungle to inform Piggy about the delay (p. 129)
- Roger = “uncommunicative by nature” (p. 133)
- retreat because of fear
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at first long description without dialogues |
| 8) Gift for the Darkness | 137-159 | Ralph, Jack, Piggy, Simon |
- “can’t have a signal fire” ⇒ resignation
- Hunters = “boys armed with sticks” (p. 138) ⇒ Jack angry
- Jack: we saw the beast (p. 139)
- Jack: Ralph’s like Piggy, he isn’t a “proper chief” (p. 139) but a coward
- Jack wants to depose Ralph but the others don’t support him (p. 140), J. doesn’t want to “play” any more, doesn’t want to belong to “Ralph’s lot” any more
- Jack separates his group and invites others to join them (p. 141)
- a new fire (Piggy’s idea) (p. 143)
- Bill, Roger, Maurice <= stealing away // others happy about that (self-sedation)
- Simon alone again
- “immediacy of the kill subsided” (p. 149 bottom)
- Jack: We’ll “raid them and take fire” (p. 150 middle)
- pig head as a gift for the beast (p. 151 middle)
- p. 152 Simon’s feelings / thoughts
- “Lord of the Flies” (p. 152 middle), pig’s head seems to warn Simon
- Samneric should work more (p. 153)
- raid – Jack offers that he might let them join (p. 155)
- Scene change > Simon seems to have a conversation with the Lord of the Flies (p. 158) ⇒ Simon looses consciousness (159)
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no descriptive part at the beginning
Piggy polishes glasses again (p. 141, 144) |
| 9) A View to a Death | 160-170 | Ralph, Piggy, Jack |
- clouds, thunder-storm
- Simon wants to return to the group (fire moved?) (p.162)
- all the boys gone to Jack’s party (p. 163)
- Piggy and Ralph decide to go there, too
- all the boys meet
- Piggy as “center of social derision” (p. 164 bottom)
- meat for the guests
- Jack: Gives food and protection of the beast ⇒ he thinks he should be the leader (p. 166)
- argument between Ralph and Jack who’s the chief but Jack is more powerful now
- dance / flashes of lightning / air was dark and terrible (167)
- Roger became the pig
- “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his bload!”
- Simon comes, explains about dead man on a hill (p. 168)
- beast killed (<= Simon!), Simon’s dead body moved out towards the open sea (p. 170)
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at first description |
| 10) The Shell and the Glasses | 171-186 | Ralph, Piggy |
- Piggy, Ralph, Samneric and littluns remained
- Jack’s group = savages
- Ralph knows that Simon’s death was murder (p. 172)
- Piggy doesn’t want to realize that
- Piggy: “It was an accident!” (p. 173)
- Piggy wants to forget
- Ralph: “I’m frightened. Of us.” (p. 173 bottom)
- Piggy invents some kind of excuse (not in the circle)
- Samneric: We left early!
- defense rock
- Wilfred tortured without any reason (p. 176)
- Jack (now called “The Chief”): The others want to spoil their achievements ⇒ defense needed (p. 177)
- they agree to let the fire go out at night because they aren’t enough people
- new raid, they stole Piggy’s glasses
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no descriptive part at first
Piggy: cleaning his glasses (p. 174 bottom) |
| 11) Castle Rock | 187-201 | Ralph, Piggy, Jack |
- no fire, no glasses ⇒ blow the conch / assembly
- get back the glasses
- Ralph suggests tidying up but the idea isn’t helpful
- Piggy wants to get his glasses back by begging and the authority of the conch (p. 189)
- the way to the savages, they meet Roger (p. 193)
- come because of fire and specs (p. 194)
- Jack attacks Ralph (p. 196)
- hunters = “painted fools” (p. 197)
- not enough sensible people to keep the fire burning (request to be sensible)
- Jack: “They do what I want”
- Fight between Jack and Ralph
- Piggy’s proposition: What is better? “law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up?” (p. 199)
- Roger moves the lever (p. 200 top), the rock struck Piggy, conch destroyed, Piggy fell forty feet, Piggy=dead (p. 200)
- Jack: “I meant that!”
- Jack attacks Ralph again, Ralph escapes, hunters give up to hunt him
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no descriptive part at the beginning |
| 12) Cry of the Hunters | 202-223 | Ralph |
- Ralph covered by wounds (p. 202)
- Ralph sees the skull (p. 204), hitting
- Ralph goes to Castle Rock
- Samneric part of the tribe now (p. 206)
- Ralph tries to talk to Samneric
- Samneric forced: “They made us. They hurt us” (p. 207)
- Hint: They want to search for Ralph (hunt!) (p. 208)
- Sam gives Ralph meat (p. 209)
- Ralph: hide in the thicket close to the fortress
- Ralph hears them, Samneric have betrayed his hiding place, savages throw rocks into Ralph’s hiding place
- Ralph defends himself using a stick and injures a savage
- fire as weapon against Ralph
- destroying their food (p. 219) ⇒ blind violence
- Ralph escapes ⇒ officer (p. 221)
- officer: “fun and games […] What have you been doing? Having a war or something?” (p. 221)
- two killed ⇒ officer shocked (p. 222), island bursts into flames
- officer sobered about the rude behaviour of the good British boys (p. 222)
- reference to the “Coral Island” (p. 223)
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long descriptive passage without dialogues at the beginning |
