Shenley Brook End School English Department

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1 Shenley Brook End School English Department Homework Booklet Lord of the Flies By William Golding Name: Teacher: Class:

2 Question 1: Read the following extract from Chapter 1 The Sound of the Shell. In this extract Golding introduces the character of Ralph. He was old enough, twelve years and a few months, to have lost the prominent tummy of childhood and not yet old enough for adolescence to have made him awkward. You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil. He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island, laughed delightedly again and stood on his head. He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest. Then he sat back and looked at the water with bright, excited eyes. Write down four things you learn about Ralph from the extract. You can write in your own words and/or include quotations from the extract. (4 marks)

3 Question 2: Read the extract from Chapter 4 Painted Faces and Long Hair. In this passage, Golding describes how the island changes throughout the day. The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors. Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched. Piggy discounted all this learnedly as a mirage ; and since no boy could reach even the reef over the stretch of water where the snapping sharks waited, they grew accustomed to these mysteries and ignored them, just as they ignored the miraculous, throbbing stars. At midday the illusions merged into the sky and there the sun gazed down like an angry eye. Then, at the end of the afternoon, the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue and clipped as the sun declined. That was another time of comparative coolness but menaced by the coming of the dark. When the sun sank, darkness dropped on the island like an extinguisher and soon the shelters were full of restlessness, under the remote stars. How does Golding use language to present the island as a dangerous place? In your answer you could explain the effects of: words and phrases language techniques sentence forms. (8 marks)

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5 Question 3: Read the extract from Chapter 12 Cry of the Hunters. In this passage, Ralph is desperately trying to get away from Jack and his tribe. What was the sensible thing to do? There was no Piggy to talk sense. There was no solemn assembly for debate nor dignity of the conch. Think. Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him. A third idea would be to hide so well that the advancing line would pass without discovering him. He jerked his head off the ground and listened. There was another noise to attend to now, a deep grumbling noise, as though the forest itself were angry with him, a sombre noise across which the ululations were scribbled excruciatingly as on slate. He knew he had heard it before somewhere, but had no time to remember. Break the line. A tree. Hide, and let them pass. A nearer cry stood him on his feet and immediately he was away again, running fast among thorns and brambles. Suddenly he blundered into the open, found himself again in that open space and there was the fathom-wide grin of the skull, no longer ridiculing a deep blue patch of sky but jeering up into a blanket of smoke. Then Ralph was running beneath trees, with the grumble of the forest explained. They had smoked him out and set the island on fire. Hide was better than a tree because you had a chance of breaking the line if you were discovered. Hide, then. He wondered if a pig would agree, and grimaced at nothing. Find the deepest thicket, the darkest hole on the island, and creep in. Now, as he ran, he peered about him. Bars and splashes of sunlight flitted over him and sweat made glistening streaks on his dirty body. The cries were far now, and faint. How has Golding structured the text to interest you as the reader? You could write about: what the writer focuses your attention on at the beginning how and why the writer changes this focus as the Source develops any other structural features that interest you. (8 marks)

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7 Question 4: Read the extract from Chapter 11 Castle Rock. In this passage, Golding describes the destruction of the conch and the death of Piggy. Jack had backed right against the tribe and they were a solid mass of menace that bristled with spears. The intention of a charge was forming among them; they were working up to it and the neck would be swept clear. Ralph stood facing them, a little to one side, his spear ready. By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. The storm of sound beat at them, an incantation of hatred. High overhead, Roger, with a sense of delirious abandonment, leaned all his weight on the lever. Ralph heard the great rock before he saw it. He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff. Then the monstrous red thing bounded across the neck and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked. The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, saying nothing, with no time for even a grunt, travelled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig s after it has been killed. Then the sea breathed again in a long, slow sigh, the water boiled white and pink over the rock; and when it went, sucking back again, the body of Piggy was gone. This time the silence was complete. Ralph s lips formed a word but no sound came. A student has said this scene is one of the most appalling and cruel scenes in the novel. To what extent do you agree? In your response, you could: consider your own impressions of Piggy and the group of boys evaluate how the writer creates an appalling and cruel scene support your response with references to the text. [20 marks]

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10 You have been invited to produce a piece of creative writing for a teen website. Either: Write a description suggested by this picture: Or: Write the opening part of a story about a time that you were in danger. (24 marks for content and organisation and 16 marks for technical accuracy) [40 marks]

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13 Feedback and Reflection Q Mark What did you do well? What do you need to do better? 1 /4 2 /8 3 /8 4 /20 5 Content and organisation /24 Content and organisation Content and organisation Technical accuracy Technical accuracy Technical accuracy Total: /16 /80

14 Please note: The questions in this booklet are designed to give you practice in answering questions in the GCSE English Language Paper 1. You will be examined on Lord of the Flies in GCSE English Literature Paper 2.