II. Exercises

Assignment 7

Chapters 10, 11

I Active Vocabulary.

Translate these words into Russian and explain the contextual meaning of the underlined words:

fragile adj

impaired adj

loathing n

to sneak in

to flinch away from smth

to disguise oneself

to keep on the right side of smb

to exult in smth

to smarten up

ferocity n

II. Exercises

1. Find antonyms of the words and phrases below in your active vocabulary:

to steal off; indestructible; to improve; attraction; to keep on at smb; to unmask oneself; to grieve over smth

2. Study these words combinations:

impaired sight (health, memory); fragile flowers (china, health, happiness); to loathe a person (a smell, a colour), a loathsome smell (sight, disease, crime); to flinch away from a memory (a vision, a sight); to have a tooth pulled out without flinching; to disguise one’s appearance (voice, face), to disguise oneself as a policeman (woman, sultan); to exult in one’s triumph (victory, liberation), to cause exultation, to be exultant over a success; an act of ferocity, to provoke ferocity, a ferocious tiger (savage, man-eater, fight)

3. Translate into Russian:

1. At the fancy dress ball she disguised herself under a black domino. 2. The man was well over ninety, but his memory was unimpaired. 3. Whenever the champion scored a new victory, his fans exulted in it as if it were their own. 4. The children caught in a thunderstorm saw a long zig-zag lightning and flinched away from it. 5. The cat, a graceful and tender creature, showed unsuspected ferocity when seeing a dog. 6. We decided to smarten up before the party. 7. The fort was well guarded, nobody could sneak in or steal off without being observed. 8. Where is that marvellous fragile figurine you kept on the mantelpiece? 9. “The young teacher took pains to keep on the right side of the children, and what did he get in return?” “He oughtn’t to have done it! Children loathe such tricks, and they are quite right about it”.

4. Use the active vocabulary to express these notions:

a delicate piece of china; to be disgusted with a scene; to change one’s appearance to conceal one’s identity; to move away with fear at the sight of a burning wall; to try to please a child using dubious methods; to ruin one’s health; to make oneself clean, tidy and smart; a fierce, cruel, bloodthirsty animal; to rejoice greatly in a victory; to get into an enemy camp be stealth

5. Confirm the statements by quoting the text:

1. a taboo was evolving round the murder of Simon in both camps

2. the adolescents admired Jack’s cruelty

3. new boys distinguished themselves under Jack’s rule

4. Jack’s savages liked rites

5. Jack took on risky work to assert himself as chief

6. Samneric realized the danger of Jack’s rule

7. Jack exulted in getting things done

8. The hunters murdered Piggy without flinching

6. Say whose utterances these are and what caused them:

1. “That was murder”.

2. “We left early because we were tired”.

3. “He is a proper Chief, isn’t he?”

4. “We might get taken prisoner by the reds”. “They’d be better than – “

5. “If we don’t get home soon we’ll be barmy”.

6. “He is the only one who ever got anything done.”

7. “You are a beast and a swine and a bloody, bloody thief!”

8. “Which is better – to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?”

9. “I’m Chief!”.

III. Questions and topics for discussion.

1. The four boys start living on their own. Describe Ralph’s physical and mental condition after the orgy. Why did Piggy try his best to convince Ralph that the murder had been an accident? For whose sake was Piggy telling lies? Do you think that the boys had actually participated in the murder? Why did Samneric tell lies and hear as much in return?

2. The new arrangements at the Castle Rock. How did Jack treat those he ruled? What made them accept the treatment? Did they deserve a leader like Jack? Which words were tabooed by the savages?

3. Ralph’s friends face new problems. Discuss the hunters’ theft of Piggy’s glasses and its consequences for the boys. Is the violence intentional?

4. Specify the conditions when Piggy became Ralph’s nurse or Ralph turned into Piggy’s nurse. Why had these relations been previously unthinkable?

5. Ralph blows the conch at the Castle Rock. Describe the savages. Why were his demands met with the savages’ laughter? What made him them lame under the circumstances? Dwell on Ralph and Jack’s confrontation. What advantage did Jack boast of that had never been achieved by Ralph?

6. Jack forces Samneric to join the tribe. Point out Jack’s utterances showing that Samneric had already been captured once but succeeded in running away. What had made the brothers stick to Ralph’s camp?

7. Piggy’s last speech. Do you regard it as a feat? What did Piggy have to overcome to make it?

8. The murder of Piggy. Find proof that the enormity of the crime was lost upon the savages. Say what events had prepared the murder. Compare it with the previous murder and specify the difference as the new stage in the savages’ degradation.

9. Follow all the references to the conch in the chapters under discussion. Mark the epithets conveying its beauty, fragility and magic. Pay special attention to reiterated epithets. Point out the culminating reference uniting all the admirable qualities of the shell. Discuss the symbolic significance of the conch, of its being shattered by the savages and of the fact that Piggy and the shell ceased to exist simultaneously.

10. Discuss the functions of fire valued by Ralph and by the savages.

11. Speak about the symbolic meaning of Piggy’s glasses.

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