by melaniewp | Oct 30, 2013 | English Literature, Extract Question, GCSE English Literature, IGCSE English Literature, Lord of the Flies, The Beast
The extract question for the English Literature exam can be baffling. But don’t panic! They usually follow a similar pattern of:How does the writer get across mood and atmosphere…How does the writer create an emotive effect…In both cases, you need to...
by melaniewp | Aug 14, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Important Quotes
This chapter opens after the cliffhanger of discovering the ‘beast’ (the dead parachutist). The boys have fled down the mountain. Ralph says “that thing squats by the fire as though it doesn’t want us to be rescued.”Jack “What about my hunters?” Ralph...
by melaniewp | Aug 13, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Important Quotes
Ralph is looking at how dirty they are. ‘He discovered with a fall of the heart that these were the conditions he took as normal now and that he did not mind.’ Ralph thinks, on this side of the island ‘one was clamped down’ ‘helpless’ ‘condemned’.Simon says,...
by melaniewp | Aug 8, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Important Quotes
Adult World of Violence and DeathThis chapter opens above the island with an air battle between two fighter planes. ‘There was no light left’ when there was a ‘battle fought at ten miles’ height’. ‘A sign came down from the world of grown-ups’ in an ‘explosion’. It is...
by melaniewp | Aug 8, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Important Quotes
Childhood/DecayAt the start of this chapter Golding says: ‘childhood’ is fading for Ralph in a ‘new mood of comprehension’ [understanding]. He ‘discovered dirt and decay’. When he sits, he is a ‘darkish figure’. Ralph thinks: ‘I can’t think. Not like Piggy.’...
by melaniewp | Aug 4, 2013 | GCSE, IGCSE, Lord of the Flies, LOTF Important Quotes
This chapter opens with a description of mirage in the heat: ‘mysteries’, ‘miraculous’, ‘illusions’, ‘impossibility’, which Piggy identifies as ‘a mirage’. The sun is ‘like an angry eye’. They were ‘menaced by the coming of the dark’.Percival (a littlun) ‘crawled’...
