Thursday, August 24, 2017

What would be a good lead-in for the quote, "You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home."

Lord of the Flies tells the story of young boys being stuck in a remote island in the Pacific. Their actions and relationships—with each other and with the island—begin to develop in complicated ways throughout the story. For instance, the dynamics between the boys show a formation of hierarchy that is similar to how totalitarian governments develop.
The particular quote "You and your blood, Jack Merridew! You and your hunting! We might have gone home," is said by the character Ralph. He is the protagonist of the novel. Jack Merridew is the antagonist in the story and the rival of Ralph. The two are co-leaders of the boys. They represent the duality of leadership styles that affect the fate of the group.
In this particular passage, Ralph chastises Jack for being obsessed with leading a hunting party instead of focusing on trying to get rescued.
The line that precedes this excerpt is, "There was a ship." (A ship has passed by the boy's island, but the signal fire was not ignited to alert the ship about the boys' presence.) Before that sentence, Ralph has already been expressing his agitation with Jack by saying, "You let the fire go out." Ralph's tone is aggressive, and this causes the group of hunters, even Jack himself, to be silent.
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