Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair

CHAPTER 4: PAINTED FACES AND LONG HAIR

IN COMPLETE SENTENCES, from the perspective of your character, answer the following questions (pretend you are writing in your journal as the character you have been assigned…step into his shoes). REMEMBER to use 5 Vocabulary Words!

EVERYBODY ANSWER:

1. What things are you having trouble adjusting to on the island that are different from your life at home in England?




2. How do you feel about the littluns?




3. What do they do with their time?




4. Why do you all paint your faces?




5. What does this foreshadow?




6. How do you feel when your face is painted?




7. Why doesn’t the passing ship see you on the island?




8. Why was the fire allowed to go out?

IF YOU ARE JACK:

1. Why do you lead the hunters in chanting, “Kill the pig. Cut her throat.”




2. Where does this desire to kill come from?

IF YOU ARE SIMON:

1. What is the overall mood on the island at this time?




2. What do you predict will happen next?

IF YOU ARE RALPH:

1. How do you re-assert your chieftainship? (How do you take charge of the boys once again?)

IF YOU ARE PIGGY:

1. What other crisis develops regarding the fire?




2. What do you predict will happen next on this island?

Character Perspectives:

1. Jack
2. Simon
3. Piggy
4. Ralph