Answer to Question #291996 in English for Kelsey Jand

Question

Lord of the Flies Study Guide Questions

Direction: Your answers need to be thorough, and where possible, quote the text (with citation).

Chapter 4

Conflict: Describe the incident between the older boys, Maurice and Roger, and the littuns, Percival and Henry. Why is Roger not able to hit Henry with the stones? What does Ralph see that causes much excitement? What has Jack done to cause conflict? Contrast Ralph’s and Jack’s reactions to missing their first chance of rescue. What does Jack do to Piggy to further the conflict? In what way has Jack’s attitude towards Piggy escalated? How does Ralph feel at the feast? What does he decide to do? 

Constructive Criticism:

Please actually answer all of the questions rather than summarize the chapter.

Answer 1

Roger joined Maurice they cruelly stomped on a sand castle the littluns had built.

Roger threw stones at one of the boys, Henry but was very careful not to hit him.

Ralph gets excited when he saw a boat from the horizon.

Jack only wants to hunt and play and this causes a conflict between him and Ralph. Ralph accosted Jack about the fire signal because it was the hunters responsibility to maintain the fire.

Ralph become furious with Jack, because it was the hunters’ responsibility to see that the fire was maintained but Jack and his hunters having killed a pig, they are excited and not even listening to his complaints. Jack even slaps Piggy for complaining about the immaturity of the hunters. He finally admitted his responsibility but never apologized to Piggy.

Jack slapped Piggy for complaining about the hunters immaturity and this furthered the conflict. He does not give him meat in the feast.

Jack' s attitude has escalated in that Jack doesn't want Piggy to come near them as they explore the Island and he calls him by his embarrassing nickname in front of the other boys.

Why did Ralph not want to eat the meat the boys hunted? Why did he ended up eating it anyway?

Ralph was against Jack's desire to hunt that it felt wrong had decided not to eat the meat but he decided to eat because of hunger.