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Ch.1 Vocabulary
1. Lagoon
2. Creeper
3. Startled
4. Flames
5. Scattered (about)
6. Asthma
7. Spectacles
8. Shimmering (water)
9. Dazzling (beach)
10. Giggle
11. Omened
12. Muttered
13. Conch
14. Eccentric (clothing)
15. Crumpled
16. Freckled

Ch.1 Questions
1. How did the boys arrive on the island?
The boys arrived on the island by the plane which crashed during a storm, killing all the adults on the plane, leaving a scar in the jungle.

2. How do Ralph’s and Piggy’s reactions differ when they know there are no grown-ups with them?
Piggy looks startled and fear when they know there are no grown-ups with them while Ralph seems to be very delighted.

3. Describe Piggy.
Piggy is annoying. He acts like a mother. Although he is annoying, he is intelligent and talkative. He is fat and chump and wearing spectacles. Also he has asthma and we believed that he maybe is an orphan and he is not well educated.

4. What created the ‘scar’ on the island?
The falling plane created it.

5. Describe Ralph. (P.15)
Ralph is good-looking, fit and well-built. He doesn’t care about other kids. He is carefree, inconsiderate and fun-loving.

6. How does Ralph react when Piggy tells him that people call him ‘Piggy’?
Ralph shrieked with laughter. He jumped up. He danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine gunned Piggy. He dived in the sand at Piggy’s feet and lay there laughing.

7. Who does Ralph think will rescue them? Why does he think so?
Ralph thinks his father will rescue them. It is because his father is a commander of Navy. He thinks his father will come and rescue them when his father gets leave.

8. Does Piggy agree with Ralph? Why or why not?
No, Piggy doesn’t agree with Ralph. This is because Piggy realized that the pilot said about the atomic bomb and knew all the grown-ups had died already.

9. Ralph sees the conch as a worthy plaything while Piggy knows that it is valuable.

10. The first little boy

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