4. Make up sentences of your own after the pattern:

1. Who will have the daring to cross the river?

2. When the fire broke out, the children were demented with horror and panic.

3. The film was rotten, and people stole off to the exit one by one.

4. Feeling out of sorts is a lame excuse for coming late.

5. The woods were astir with the first rays of the sun.

6. A new theory evolved to explain the origin of life on the Earth.

7. Don't rebuke him for being too slow in thinking, it won't help.

8. Corruption was an object of Gogol's derision.

9. What do you think of people who unburden themselves to strangers?

5. Recall episodes from your life when:

1. somebody had the daring to do something extraordinary, 2. you heard a lame story; 3. you felt a menace to common sense in somebody's behaviour; 4. you had to steal off to avoid wasting time; 5. you had to rebuke a child; 6. somebody tried to unburden himself to you at the wrong moment; 7. you resented somebody's derision.

6. Recall the situations from the book suggested by the sentences:

1. ...Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir...

2. "All right then," he said in tones of deep meaning and menace...

3. Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph.

4. Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.

5. Only Piggy could have the intellectual daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.

6. "I seen them stealing off when we were gathering wood."

7. Ralph, having begun the business of unburdening himself, continued.

8. A taboo was evolving about that word too. 9. "They raided us for fire."

10. ...Ralph's remarks seemed lame, even to the littluns.

11. Piggy once more was the centre of social derision...

12. Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this dementedbut partly secure society.

7. Make up your own statements based on the proceedings in chapters 8,9 applying the vocabulary below to:

a) Jack: derision, to have the daring to do something, to menace, lame, demented;

b) Ralph: to steal off, to have the daring to do something, demented, menace.

8. Paraphrase or explain:

1. Jack's voice went on, tremulous yet determined, pushing against the uncooperative silence. (p. 197)

2. They agreed passionately out of the depths of their tormented private lives. (p. 207)

3. They were regarding him (Ralph) gravely, not yet troubled by any doubts about his sufficiency. (p. 218)

4. "Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!" said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. "You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you?" (p. 220-221)

5. Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms: authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape. (p.229)

9. Quote the text to confirm the following:

1. Jack put the matter of being chief to the vote at the wrong moment.

2. Ralph openly declared his defeat.

3. Where Simon expected Piggy's understanding he met with derision.

4. Piggy was the first to evolve a taboo round Jack's name.

5. InJack's absence Piggy twice surpassed himself.

6. No one suspected Simon of stealing off.

7. Ralph was developing a nervous breakdown.

8. Ralph as chief was unused to honours.

9. Jack bought his followers with meat. 10. Roger was the worst sadist of all the hunters.

11. Simon's talk with the sow's head was imaginary. 12. The head menaced Simon by death.

13. Jack's followers are referred to as savages by the author.

14. Jack's camp attached little or no importance to the conch.

15. Ralph's laughter at Piggy in Jack's camp was betrayal.

16. Ralph and Piggy witnessed Simon's murder.