STUDYGUIDE CH9-12 Name: Per.#
Chapter Nine- “ A View to a Death”
1) How does nature parallel what is happening on the island?
2) What has Simon decided to do by himself?
3) What did Simon do before he left the parachutist?
4) What does Simon resolve to do?
5) What do Ralph and Piggy notice?
6) What reason does Ralph give for the boys going to the feast?
7) Why does Piggy suggest that he and Ralph go the feast too?
8) Jack does not possess the conch, the symbol of leadership. How can he rule without it?
9) Where does Jack sit when his group meets?
10) Why do Ralph and Piggy go to the feast?
11) Does Jack allow them to have meat?
12) As a storm blows up and the Littluns begin to cry, how does Jack again divert the boys from the fact that they have no shelters to go to, to get away from the storm?
13) Why do Ralph and Piggy take part in the savage dance?
14) Who comes out of the forest at this time? What happens to him? Why does this happen?
15) How is Simon’s dead body made to seem beautiful and glorified as it is floated out to sea? Why does this fit Simon?
Chapter Ten- “The Shell and the Glasses”
1) Why don’t Sam, Eric, Ralph, and Piggy openly admit that they helped kill Simon?
2) What do they say to excuse their actions?
3) How does Jack excuse the death of Simon?
4) What decision does Jack state as to the beast?
5) Jack punishes Wilfred. How?
6) What does this say about Jack’s leadership?
7) Jack raids Ralph’s camp. Why?
8) Why didn’t Jack take the conch?
Chapter Eleven- “Castle Rock”
1) After Jack raids the camp for Piggy’s glasses, how many boys are left now in Ralph’s group?
2) What happened to their fire?
3) At the pitifully small meeting they call, what is decided?
4) Why does Ralph suggest that they clean up before they go?
5) When they reach Castle Rock, describe how Jack’s tribe looks.
6) Why won’t Jack’s group of boys listen to Ralph and Piggy’s talk of fire and rescue?
7) When Piggy showed the boys the conch shell and tried to talk, what did Roger do?
8) What happens to Ralph?
9) What happens to Sam and Eric?
10) What does it mean when “Roger edged past the chief (Jack), only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder”?
Chapter Twelve- “Cry of the Hunters”
1) What does Ralph understand now about his status with Jack’s tribe?
2) Two boys are guarding Castle Rock when Ralph returns to it. Who are they?
3) Ralph gets what information from Sam and Eric after climbing Castle Rock and talking to them frantically?
4) What do the twins shove at Ralph before he leaves?
5) After thinking, what does Ralph realize Jack and Roger are planning to do with him when they capture him?
6) Why must Jack and Roger kill Ralph? What does he represent to them?
7) What does Ralph tell the twins before he departs?
8) What do the twins tell Jack and Roger the next morning after again being tortured?
9) What methods do they use to try to kill Ralph in his secure hiding place?
10) What does Ralph do?
11) What choices does Ralph feel he now has?
12) Ralph decides to hide. Is he found? What does he do?
13) Who rescues Ralph?
14) The officer asks Percival his name. Why can’t Percival remember what he had recited about his name just a few days ago?
15) What is ironic about A) the island being on fire? B) the rescue by an officer from a ship from the civilized world?