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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 When he reached the middle of the mat he lay and listened.
2 Then he bent down and wormed his way into the center of the mat.
3 He lay in the mat of creepers while the evening advanced and the cannon continued to play.
4 Here, bushes and a wild tangle of creeper made a mat that kept out all the light of the sun.
5 Birds were screaming, mice shrieking, and a little hopping thing came under the mat and cowered.
6 He went on among the creepers until he reached the great mat that was woven by the open space and crawled inside.
7 He could see a striped savage moving hastily out of a green tangle, and coming toward the mat where he hid, a savage who carried a spear.
8 And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
9 Since they had not so far to go for light the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle; for here a patch of rock came close to the surface and would not allow more than little plants and ferns to grow.