Characterization Quotes Chapters 10,11, and 12

1. Characterization Quotes Chapters 10,11, and 12 By Alex Jirgens, ZakkValance, and sort of Mason

2. Chapter 10 • “ Piggy? Are you the only one left? (155) – Ralph • “ Call an assembly?” Ralph laughed sharply as he said the word and Piggy frowned. (156) • “ Don’t you understand, Piggy? The things we did-” “ He may still be –” “ No.” “ P’raps he was only pretending –”

3. Chapter 10 • “Piggy Said nothing but nodded, solemnly. They continued to sit, gazing with impaired sight at the chiefs’s seat and the glittering lagoon.” (156) • “Tomorrow,” went on the chief, “ we shall hunt again”. (160)- Jack • “Don’t you understand? What’s the good of wishing for radios and boats?” […] There’s only one thing we can do to get out of this mess. Anyone can play at hunting, anyone can get us meat.”(163) - Ralph

4. Chapter 10 • “He came-disguised. He may come again even though we gave him the head of our kill to eat. So watch; and be carful.” (160) – Jack • “ I wasn’t scared,” said Ralph slowly, “I was-I don’t know what I was.” (156) • “It was an accident,” said Piggy suddenly, “ that’s what it was. An accident.” (157)

5. Chapter 11 • "'This is 'jus talk....I want my glasses.'“ (155) – Piggy • "'[We should be] looking like we used to, washed and hair brushed -- after all we aren't savages really....'“ (155) – Ralph • Jack is suddenly seen emerging from the forest with two other hunters, all three "masked in black and green.“ (160)

6. Chapter 11 • "Ralph--remember what we came for. The fire. My specs.“(161) – Piggy • "You're a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!“ (163) - Ralph • The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.“ (164) • "Behind them on the grass the headless and paunched body of a sow lay where they had dropped it.“ (160)

7. Chapter 11 • "Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed." • "A single drop of water that had escaped Piggy's fingers now flashed on the delicate curve like a star.“ (156) • "'Which is better--to be a pack of painted Indians like you are, or to be sensible like Ralph is....Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?'" (164) – Piggy

8. Chapter 12 • "'They're not as bad as that. It was an accident.'“ (168) – Ralph • "Then there was that indefinable connection between himself and Jack; who therefore would never let him alone....“ (168) • "Ralph launched himself like a cat; stabbed, snarling, with the spear, and the savage doubled up.“ (177) • They warn Ralph that when the morning came, the hunters would all be hunting Ralph and how they had "'to be careful and throw...spears like at a pig.'“ (172)

9. Chapter 12 • "thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense.“ (179) – Ralph • "Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?“ (180) -Ralph • "You'll get back.“ (181) – Simon • "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy." (184)

10. Chapter 12 • He saw a shelter burst into flames and the fire flapped at his right shoulder.“ (182) • "'I should have thought that a pack of British boys... would have been able to put up a better show than that.'“ (184) – Officer • "a semi-circle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands....“ (182)