Gift for the Darkness - Quotations
English Lit: AQA GCSE Lord of the Flies, topic 6.2.8
Quotations from Chapter 8
Here are a few key quotations from Chapter 8:
Ralph describes the hunters
- Just “boys armed with sticks”.
Jack leaves
- “Slowly the red drained from Jack's cheeks, then came back with a painful rush”.
- Jack puts down the conch and tells the boys that, if they want meat, they can hunt with him. Then he walks away.
Piggy's intellect
- “Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain”.
Jack's hopes for leadership
- “I'm going to get more of the biguns away from the conch and all that. We'll kill a pig and give a feast”.
- Jack thinks that he can get more of the other boys to leave Ralph and join him if he provides more pig meat for them to eat.
Killing the mother sow
- Jack “giggled” as he notices that his hands are covered in blood and rubs the blood on another boy’s face.
- Roger brags about jamming the spear “right up her ass!”.
- Jack says that the pig’s head is “a gift” for the beast.
"Sharpen a stick"
- Before they leave, Jack tells Roger to “sharpen a stick at both ends”.
Test yourself on Gift for the Darkness - Quotations
How does Ralph describe the hunters in Chapter 8?
What does Jack ask Roger to do in Chapter 8?