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Guided Reading Chapter 1: The Sound of the Shell

1. Describe what you learn of the setting from the first paragraph.

2. Describe the two boys we first encounter.

3. Who is the second boy looking for?

4. We have heard “the long scar” a few times now. What do you think the scar is?

5. What may not be anywhere nearby?

6. What has happened to these boys? How did they get here?

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7. What is the blond boy’s name?

8. What is the plump boy concerned about?

9. What two things do we learn about him?

10.Describe the beach.

11.Describe Ralph.

12.What is Ralph doing? What does the other boy do?

13.What is the second boy still concerned about?

14.What does he say they should do?


15.Why does he suggest this?

16.What is this boy’s request about his name?

17.What was he called?

18. How does Ralph react?

19.What is Piggy’s response? Why does he react that way?

20.Describe the “platform” and the “pool” there.

21.What does Ralph do?

22.How does Piggy approach this same activity?


23.Who does Piggy mention again? How does Ralph respond? What might this say about them?

24.Why doesn’t Piggy swim? What does Ralph say about that?

25.What do we learn about Ralph’s family?

26. What do we learn about Piggy’s family?

27.What do the boys discuss happening? Why does Piggy say this can’t happen?

28.Where does Ralph think they are?

29.What does Piggy come to realize?

30.What is Piggy concerned about again? What does this likely say about him?


31.What do they see? Where has Piggy seen one before?

32. What does Piggy think to do with it? Who does he credit this idea to? What does this say about the boys?

33.When Ralph causes it to sound, what happens around them?

34.Does the conch have the affect they had hoped for? What happens?

35.What does Piggy begin to do? What does this say about him?

36.How do the boys react as they come to the “platform”? Why do you think they do this?

37.What type of clothes do these boys have with them?


38.What are the twins’ names?

39.Describe the last group of boys to arrive at the “platform.”

40.How do they appear different than the others?

41.How is their leader identified?

42.What does the leader of this group expect to see? When he doesn’t, how does he react?

43.How does the leader treat the other boys?

44.Does Piggy respond to this group the same way he had to the other boys who came to the meeting? Why or why not?


45.What have the others been calling this leader? What is his whole name? What does it say about him that he wants to be called by his last name?

46.How does Jack treat Piggy?

47.Up to this point, who has done the most for the group?

48.What is the name of the boy who had fainted?

49.What does Ralph think they should do?

50.Who does Jack think should be the obvious choice and why?

51.What do they decide to do?

52.Each of the following boys seems like an obvious possibility. Why?

a. Jack

b. Piggy

c. Ralph

53.Who does it come down to?

54.Which boys vote which ways? Why?


55.Why do you think Piggy was excluded from nomination? What does this say about the boys? About society in general?

56.How does Ralph appease Jack? What does the choir become?

57.What does Jack finally give the choir permission to do? How do they react? What does this say about Jack and the choir?

58.What does Ralph decide the first thing they should do is?

59.How does he plan to accomplish this?

60.Who is going?

61.How do they treat Piggy? Do you think this is smart?


62. What does Piggy confront Ralph about? What does Ralph realize? How does Ralph react?

63.What is Piggy’s assigned task?

64.How does climbing go? What do they use to get further along?

65.What do the boys find as a fun challenge on the way to the top?

66.Is it an island? What does Ralph say?

67.Describe what the boys see as they survey the land.

68.What does Ralph determine about the island?

69. How do the boys seem to feel about having this island to themselves? What quotes from the book make you think so?


70.Why do they decide to go back down the mountain?

71.After determining that they can’t eat the candle buds, what do they find?

72.What does Jack do?

73.What do they have time to realize?

74.What happens and how does Jack react? Why do you think this is?

75.What does Jack say about the next time he sees a Pig? What does he do to drive his point home?

76.What do you notice about the interactions between Ralph, Jack, and Simon during their time of exploration?


Guided Reading Chapter 2: Fire on the Mountain

1. What are they doing?

2. What is different this time than the morning?

3. What does Ralph begin to tell the boys?

4. What does Jack have to say? How does he drive home his point?

5. When Ralph says there are no grown-ups on the island, how do the children react?

6. What does Ralph begin to do?

7. Give examples.

8. What does Jack think they should do if anyone breaks the rules?

9. Who took the conch? What does he have to say?


10.What does Piggy says happened to their plane?

11.What does Ralph conclude?

12.How does Ralph describe the island?

13.Who comes forward? Describe this.

14.Who encourages the boy? How?

15.What does the boy want? What does he call it?

16.What does Ralph say about it?

17.What does he blame it on?

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19.What does Ralph say is the most important thing?

20.What does Ralph say the Queen has? What does he conclude about this?

21.What does Ralph say they need to make to help them get rescued?

22.Once this comes up, what happens to the conch?

23.What happens to the group? Who is left at the platform?

24. What does Ralph do? What does Piggy do?

25.What does Piggy take with him?

26.What does this say about Piggy?

27.What do the boys begin to do on the mountain? of 62


28.How are Jack and Ralph getting along?

29.Once they have a pile, what do Ralph & Jack realize?

30.Who shows up?


32.How does Piggy feel about this?

33.Who lights the fire and how?

34.What is Piggy’s concern? Why?

35.What metaphor does William Golding use to describe life and the fire?

36.Why does Ralph say, “that was no good”?


37.How do Simon and Jack differ in the way they treat Piggy?

38.What are Jack and Piggy arguing about?

39.What is Maurice’s idea?

40.Who ends up with the conch and what does he say?

41.Jack says, “I agree with Ralph. We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything. So we’ve got to do the right things.” What do you think about this quote?

42.What does Jack offer to do?

43.What does Jack say will happen with the fire?


44. When Piggy grabs the conch, what does he talk about?

45.What does Piggy see and point out?

46.List some of the things Golding compares the fire to.

47.How do the boys react at first? What changes?

48.What does Piggy point out about their firewood?

49.Describe the interaction between Jack and Piggy.

50.The novel says “Piggy lost his temper.” List the things does and the things he tells the others about.


51.What starts happening to Piggy? What question does he ask?

52.How does Ralph react to Piggy’s insistence?

Guided Reading Chapter 3: Huts on the Beach

1. What is Jack doing?

2. How is he different from when we last saw him?

3. Describe Jack’s as he hunts.

4. What simile does Golding use to describe Jack at the end of the 4th paragraph?


5. What does Jack hear? What does he do?

6. What are Ralph and Simon doing?

7. What is everyone else doing?

8. How does Ralph seem to feel about meetings at this point? Why do you think so?

9. Describe how Jack talks about his need to keep hunting.

10.What happens between Jack and Ralph?

11.Why does Ralph feel the need to have shelters?


12.Who are the “littluns”?

13.What has become unmentionable?

14.What does Jack say it sometimes feels like when he is alone hunting in the jungle?

15.What do they say would be best?

16.Jack wants this to wait until what?

17.What is Ralph concerned about? Why?

18.Describe the interaction between Ralph and Jack with regard to the smoke and the pigs.

19.What is Piggy doing?


20.Who stays to help Ralph when the others run off?

21. What do Jack and Ralph think about Simon?

22.Explain this line: “They walked along, two continents of experience and feeling, unable to communicate.”

23.Describe Simon.

24. Where did Simon go? What does he find? Describe this place.


Guided Reading Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair

1. Fill out the graphic organizer below for each part of the day.

Time of Day Descriptions Tone/Mood

Morning

Afternoon

Night

2. Describe Percival. Why do you think Golding tells us about him?

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4. Describe the life of the littluns.

5. Who has not been seen since the evening of the “great fire”?

6. Who are the smallest boys on the island?

7. How do Roger & Maurice treat the littluns?

8. How does Maurice’s reaction differ here on the island than it may have back home? Explain.

9. How is Roger described?

10.What does Roger do? What does this say about him?

11.Who calls Roger away? Why?


12.How does Jack act when he has painted his face? What do they call it?

13.Explain how the boys react.

14.What is different about Piggy in comparison to the other boys?

15.What does Ralph see?

16.How do the others react?

17.What does Ralph say the people on the boat will see?

18.What do the boys realize? How do they react?

19.When Ralph gets toward the end of the scar, what does he realize? What is his dilemma?

20. What do they find at the top of the mountain?


21.How do the boys react?Ralph:

Simon:

22.How does “the procession” arrive?

23.What do the boys have?

24.What are they chanting?

25.What is the mood of the procession?

26.How does that compare with the mood of the other boys on the mountain?

27.What is the first thing Ralph says to them?

28.How does Jack react? What does he do?

29.How do Jack and the others describe the kill?


30.How does Jack react when Ralph repeats, “You let the fire go out”?

31.What does Jack’s description of the event tell you about Jack?

32.How does Ralph react?

33.What does Piggy say to Jack? Why do you think he chooses these words?

34.What is Jack doing while Ralph is talking to him?

35.What does Piggy have to say?

36.How does Jack react to this?

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38.Explain how the crowd of boys reacts to Jack’s apology.

39.Why did they build the fire in a different spot?

40.Explain what this does for Ralph.

41.The text says, “By the time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier,” and also, “Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.” What do you think about these lines? Explain.

42.Why did Jack not give Piggy any meat?

43.Explain the significance of Simon’s sharing with Piggy and Jack’s reaction.

44.What brings the boys together?


45.Describe the boys’ retelling of the hunt.

46.What do they do to “celebrate” the kill?

47.What is their chant?

48.What does Ralph decide to do?

49. Make a prediction about why he is doing this.


Guided Reading Chapter 5: Beast from Water

1. What is Ralph doing in the first paragraph?

2. The end of the first paragraph says, “There must be no mistake about this assembly, no chasing imaginary…” Given the brief second paragraph, what can you conclude about why this sentence trails off? What do you think the end of it could have been?

3. What does Ralph become aware of?

4. What is different about this meeting?

5. What does Ralph say the trouble was with being chief?

6. What does he say about his thinking? What does he realize about Piggy?


7. Describe how Ralph feels about the conch. Why do you think so?

8. How does the conch look these days?

9. What does Piggy do (or not do) to make a statement? What is this intended to convey?

10.What does Ralph say they need? Why?

11.What does Piggy do?

12.List Ralph’s concern(s).

13.When Ralph brings up the fire, how does Jack react?

14.What new rule to does Ralph make?


15.Ralph compares the boys when they first arrived and now. What comparison does he make? What changed?

16.What does Ralph say they can talk about and decide on?

17.Who picks up the conch and starts to speak? What does he have to say?

18.Describe how Jack says the hunters talk about the beast.

19. What does Jack think about it?

20.He says he knows that there is not a beast. How does he claim to know this?

21.What does Piggy say could happen in the next few years?

22.What does Piggy say about fear and the beast?

23.What does he go on to say may be the exception?


24.Who is Phil and what does he tell the others about? What does he think was a dream? What does he think was real?

25.What does Ralph say?

26.What was it out in the dark?

27.Why was he there?

28.What does Jack do/say?

29.When Percival comes forward, what does Ralph remember? How does he react?

30.When Percival finally tells them his name, what comes with it? What does he remember? How does he react?

31.What do the other littluns start to do?

32.How does Maurice help?


33.What does Jack bring up?

34.What does Jack want to know from Percival?

35.What is his answer?

36.How do the other boys react to this?

37.What does Maurice say?

38.How does Ralph gain order again?

39.Who speaks up and what does he say?

40.The book says, “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness.” Explain this.

41.What does Jack do? How do the boys react?

42.How does Simon react?43.Now that it’s darker, what does Ralph begin to notice?

44.What happens between Jack and Piggy? How does this end?


45.What do they decide to do about the ghosts?

46.When Piggy takes the conch again, what does he ask the group? What’s his point?


48.What does Ralph say?

49.How does Jack react?

50.How do Jack and Ralph each feel about the rules?

51.What is Jack’s solution to the “beastie”?

52.What does the assembly of boys do?

53.What does Piggy think Ralph should do?

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55.What is Piggy’s reaction to this?

56.What do you think about his statement?

57.What is Piggy’s reaction to the thought of Ralph not being chief?

58.Who is left at the platform other than Piggy & Ralph?

59.Summarize what Piggy says about Jack.

60.How does Simon feel about it?

61.What does Piggy have to say about how grownups are different than them?

62.Do you think he’s right? Why or why not?

63.What does Ralph wish they would get from the grownups?


64.“Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.” Explain this line.


Guided Reading Chapter 6: Beast from Air

1. What is visible in the sky over the island that night?

2. What comes down from the world of grownups?

3. Read the description in the book and explain what has happened.

4. Describe the resting place and situation for this “sign.”

5. Who is on the mountain and what are they doing?

6. What are they remembering?

7. What does Eric see? How do the twins react?

8. Where do they go?


9. What does Ralph tell the twins to do?

10.How does this meeting begin differently than the other meetings?

11.Describe the twins’ account.

12.What does Jack say they will do?

13.What job does Ralph give Piggy? Why?

14.What does Jack think about the conch?

15.What is Ralph’s main concern? Why?

16.What is wrong with Piggy?

17.Where do they think the beast might live? Why?

18.As he hikes along, what is Simon thinking about the beast?

19.What do the boys call this part of the island?


20.Describe this part of the island.

21.Who goes first? Why?

22.What does Simon have to say?

23.Describe what Ralph thinks about the Pacific Ocean.

24.Who joins Ralph and why?

25.How does Jack view this place? Explain.

26.What does Ralph look for?

27.What are they debating?

28.What does Ralph say they should do? What reaction is this met with?


Guided Reading Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees

1. When they stop to eat, what does Ralph think about?

2. What is different on this side of the island?

3. What does Simon tell Ralph? What do you think made him say something?

4. What is Jack doing?

5. What does Ralph daydream about during the lull in the hunt?

6. What startles Ralph out of his daydreaming?

7. What does he do?

8. How does he feel about this?

9. When they begin to reenact the hunt, what happens?


10.Why doesn’t Ralph get closer?

11.Who wants to go back to Piggy before dark?

12.Where does Ralph want to go? Why?

13.How is their hike to the mountain going on this side of the island?

14.What does Ralph decide about Piggy and the littluns?


16.Who goes?

17.What question does Ralph ask Jack?

18.After hiking a bit more, it gets dark, and Ralph decides what?



20.Explain this interaction between Ralph and Jack.

21.Who ends up going?

22.Why does Ralph think this is foolish?

23.Who ends up going alone and why?

24.What does Jack report when he returns?

25. What does Ralph decide they should do?

26.How does Jack react?

27.What do they see on the mountain? How does Ralph react?

28.How is the thing described?

29.When it moves, how do the boys react?


Guided Reading Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness

1. What is Ralph telling Piggy about?

2. What does Ralph think about hunting it?

3. What does “the beast” have to do with the signal fire?

4. Who is blowing the conch?

5. How is this different from what normally happens?

6. When Jack starts talking, what does he begin to do?

7. What question does Jack ask the assembly?

8. What is the result?

9. How does Jack react?

10.Why does Ralph think there is “nothing to be done”?

11.Who stands up with an idea? What is the idea?


12. What response does this get?

13.Who comes through with a logical plan? What is it?

14.How is Piggy different since Jack is gone?

15.What do the twins realize about this new plan? How do the littluns feel about this?

16.What happened for the first time on the island?

17.What is Piggy’s next idea?

18.What do Ralph and Piggy begin to notice?

19.Who is gone?

20.What do Piggy and the twins do for Ralph?

21.What is Ralph wondering about?

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23.Where is Jack? What does his group of boys look like?

24.What does Jack say they will do and will not do?

25.What is Jack’s plan? (List both parts.)

26.What stands out among the pigs?

27.What do the boys do? What happens?

28.Where does the pig end up?


29.Describe the kill in one word.

30.What do the boys do after the pig is dead?

31.What is Roger’s question? How does Jack respond?

32.What do the boys do with the pig’s head? Why?

33.What is the loudest sound?

34.Who saw all of this?

35.What do you think about the following lines: “The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life. They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.”

36.What is the interaction like between Simon and the pig head?

37.What has left Simon’s place?


38.What “finds” Simon?

39.How was his place described in earlier chapters? What is it like now?

40.What is the pig head called?

41.Explain these lines: “At last Simon gave up and looked back; saw the white teeth and dim eyes, the blood – and his gaze was held by that ancient, inescapable recognition.”

42.What is the weather like?

43.What is Ralph scared of?

44.When Ralph asks Piggy, “What’s wrong?” and goes on to ask, “what makes things break up like they do?” What does he mean?

45.What word was a “taboo… evolving around”?

46.What upsets the quite talk Ralph and Piggy are having?

47.What does Jack say about people joining his tribe?


48.What do the two nameless painted faces say after Jack is done speaking?

49.What was Piggy worried about jack going after?

50.When Ralph is talking about the fire, what does he call Jack and his tribe?

51.What is the reaction among the boys at the shelters when it comes to Jack’s invitation?

52.Who is Simon “talking” to?

53.What does the pig’s head “say” it is?

54.Explain the line “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close! I’m the reason why it’s no go? Why things are what they are?”

55.What is happening to Simon?


56.What is the beast’s message?


Guided Reading Chapter 9: A View to a Death

1. In one word, state how the weather is described.

2. What is the only thing that “prospered”?

3. What has happened to Simon?

4. What “cannon” is “playing”?

5. Describe Simon’s condition.

6. What is Simon heading toward? What has already found it?

7. What does Simon realize?

8. What does he do and why?

9. Where does Simon plan to go next? Why?

10.What are Ralph and Piggy doing?

11.What do they decide to do?

12.Describe Jack’s party. of 62


13.When the boys begin to notice Piggy and Jack, how are they received?

14.What causes all of the boys (except Piggy) to unite in laughter?

15.What tone does the following line convey: “Evening was come, not with calm beauty but with the threat of violence”?

16.How is Jack treated by his tribe?

17.What question does Jack ask the boys?

18.What develops between Jack and Ralph?

19.How does the conch come up in their argument?

20.Symbolically, what do you think this means?

21.Describe the scene when the rain starts.

22.What does Jack tell them to do?

23.How does Golding describe what is achieved by this?


24.What are they chanting?

25.Describe the mood/tone of this section.

26.When the circle becomes a horseshoe, what happens?

27.Who is it? What is he saying?

28.What happens to Simon?

29.What happens on top of the mountain?

30.Describe the end of this chapter.


Guided Reading Chapter 11: Castle Rock

1. How is Ralph’s fire?

2. Describe the condition of the four boys.

3. What does Piggy want Ralph to do?

4. Why does Piggy want the conch?

5. Summarize what Ralph has to say.

6. What is Ralph’s first idea?

7. What question does Piggy ask? (He has asked this question before.)

8. What is Piggy’s plan? What does Jack say about it?

9. Piggy plans to base his appeal to Jack on what?


10.What do you think Ralph remembers Simon once saying to him?

11.Why are they concerned that the others will be painted?

12.Who is going first?

13.How are they greeted?

14.What does Ralph tell them?

15.What does Roger do? Does this remind you of something? What?

16.Who comes from the forest?

17.Ralph say that Jack does not like what?

18.What happens between Ralph & Jack?

19.What does Ralph attempt to explain to the boys? What is their reaction and how does that affect Ralph?


20.What “command” does Jack give?

21.Explain this line: “Samneric protested out of the heart of civilization.”

22.What does Ralph call Jack? Can you make any connections?

23. What does Piggy do? Why do you think the boys respond?

24.Describe Roger’s behavior.

25.What does Piggy hold out? Describe this action.

26.What does Roger do?

27.What results?

28.What does the loss of the conch mean?


29.What do you think the loss of Piggy means?

30.What does Jack do? How does Ralph respond?

31.What does Jack want from Samneric?

32.At the end of the chapter, Roger approaches Samneric. Explain the ending of this chapter.


Guided Reading Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters

1. Where is Ralph?

2. What does Ralph decide will have to wait and why?

3. Analyze these lines: “But really, thought Ralph, this was not Bill. This was a savage whose images refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.”

4. What is the tribe doing?

5. What does Ralph take this time to do? Why?

6. What does Ralph come upon in the forest?

7. What does Ralph do when he sees it?

8. Where does Ralph go?


9. What does Ralph hear from Castle Rock?

10.Who does Ralph see guarding Castle Rock?

11.What does he do?

12.Why do you think Ralph’s “throat was hurting him now thought it had received no wounds.”

13.Why are Samneric part of the tribe now?

14.What do they tell Ralph about tomorrow’s plans?

15.What is Ralph’s plan?

16.What does Ralph want to know?

17.What do the twins tell him? What can be inferred from this information?

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19.Where does he hide? What is the purpose of this?

20.How does Ralph wake up in the morning?

21.What can be inferred about Ralph’s hiding place?

22.What does Jack’s tribe try to do?

23.What happens to Ralph?

24.What is the next attack? How does Ralph respond?

25.What is the third attack?


27.What sort of ideas does Ralph have? What are the problems with these ideas?


28.Analyze this line: “There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch.”

29.What is Ralph hearing that he doesn’t recognize?

30.When he stumbles into the clearing, what does Ralph realize?

31.How does he make a decision about what course of action to take?

32.When Ralph thinks “The fools! The fools!” What does he realize?

33.How is the island reacting to the fire?

34.Who is next to Ralph? How do you know?


36.Where is Ralph heading?


37.Who does Ralph run into on the beach?

38.What does this person have with him?

39.What does he ask Ralph?

40.Who else arrives on the beach?

41.What does the officer say?

42.What does the officer say brought him to the island?

43.What questions does he ask?

44. Do you think Ralph’s response is what the man expected? Why or why not?

45.Who tries to tell the officer his name? What happens? What do you think that means?


46.What question does the man ask? How is it answered? What is Jack’s reaction?

47.What does the man say he would have thought they could have done? Does this remind you of anything?

48.What does Ralph do for the first time?

49.Analyze these lines: “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.”

50. Re-read the last line. What do you think about the boys’ “rescue”?


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