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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Beyond the platform there was more enchantment.
2 They heaved the fallen boy to the platform and let him lie.
3 By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded.
4 Then he climbed the edge of the platform and sat in the green shade on a convenient trunk.
5 He picked his way to the seaward edge of the platform and stood looking down into the water.
6 Ralph, Jack and Simon jumped off the platform and walked along the sand past the bathing pool.
7 There, too, jutting into the lagoon, was the platform, with insect-like figures moving near it.
8 He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.
9 Even while he blew, Ralph noticed the last pair of bodies that reached the platform above a fluttering patch of black.
10 The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.
11 He jumped off the palm terrace into the sand and his trousers fell about his ankles; he stepped out of them and trotted to the platform.
12 When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light.
13 The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness.
14 A dark little boy, not much younger than Piggy, parted a tangle of undergrowth, walked on to the platform, and smiled cheerfully at everybody.
15 Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.
16 The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand.
17 When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
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