This board helps players review Literature · William Golding through a Jeopardy-style game format on Kleveroo. It includes categories such as Characters, Setting & Plot, Themes, Symbols, Trivia & Quotes. It is useful for classroom review, team trivia, family game night, test prep, and group play.
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- Test prep
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- Group play
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The fair-haired leader elected at the start.
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Ralph
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Where the boys are stranded.
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A deserted tropical island
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Central conflict — order versus this.
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Savagery / civilization vs. savagery
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What the conch shell symbolizes.
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Order, civilization, democracy
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Year published.
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1954
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Ralph allegorically represents this.
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Democracy / order / civilization
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Board content
Characters
- $100 — The fair-haired leader elected at the start.
- Ralph
- $200 — The boy with glasses, the intellectual.
- Piggy
- $300 — The leader of the choir who becomes the villain.
- Jack
- $400 — The quiet, mystical boy who 'sees' the truth.
- Simon
- $500 — The twins who serve as Ralph's loyal lookouts.
- Sam and Eric (Samneric)
Setting & Plot
- $100 — Where the boys are stranded.
- A deserted tropical island
- $200 — What caused the plane crash.
- A war (the boys were being evacuated)
- $300 — The object used to call meetings.
- The conch shell
- $400 — The 'beast' the boys fear is actually this.
- A dead parachutist (and their own fear)
- $500 — Who rescues the boys at the end.
- A British naval officer
Themes
- $100 — Central conflict — order versus this.
- Savagery / civilization vs. savagery
- $200 — The darkness or evil that exists inside humans.
- Inherent evil of mankind
- $300 — Loss of childhood purity.
- Loss of innocence
- $400 — The corrupting effect of being in charge.
- Power and leadership
- $500 — Mob mentality and how it grows on the island.
- Group violence / hysteria
Symbols
- $100 — What the conch shell symbolizes.
- Order, civilization, democracy
- $200 — What Piggy's glasses symbolize.
- Intellect, reason, science (and they make fire)
- $300 — What the 'Lord of the Flies' itself symbolizes.
- Evil within humans (and Beelzebub)
- $400 — The fire on the mountain symbolizes this.
- Hope of rescue / connection to civilization
- $500 — The signal smoke vs. the hunt fire shows this.
- Civilization vs. savagery
Trivia & Quotes
- $100 — Year published.
- 1954
- $200 — Golding's later award (1983) for literature.
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- $300 — What 'Lord of the Flies' translates to in Hebrew.
- Beelzebub
- $400 — Who kills Piggy.
- Roger (with a rock/boulder)
- $500 — Who kills Simon.
- The group of boys in a frenzy
Allegory & Characters
- $100 — Ralph allegorically represents this.
- Democracy / order / civilization
- $200 — Jack allegorically represents this.
- Dictatorship / savagery / tyranny
- $300 — Piggy represents this.
- Reason / science / intellect
- $400 — Simon represents this.
- Spirituality / natural goodness / the Christ figure
- $500 — The historical event that shaped Golding's view of humanity.
- World War II
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