Chapter 5: Beast from Water

CHAPTER 5: BEAST FROM WATER

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). Include 5 vocabulary terms.

EVERYBODY ANSWER-

Why is an assembly called?
What concerns are brought up?
How do you feel about those concerns?
How are things breaking up (falling apart)?
Why do you think the littluns cry in their sleep?
What was Percival Wemys Madison afraid of?
What do you think is “the dirtiest thing there is” about human nature?

IF YOU ARE RALPH

1. What is your attitude about decision making and being a chief?
2. How have you changed (shown yourself to be a dynamic character) since the beginning of this experience on the island?

IF YOU ARE JACK

1. Why do you hate Ralph?

IF YOU ARE SIMON

1. Explain the passage written about you: “Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. Inspiration came to him. What’s the dirtiest thing there is?”
2. What are you suggesting about human nature when you ask that question?

IF YOU ARE PIGGY

1. If you were the leader of the boys right now, how would things be different?

Character Perspectives:

1. Ralph

2. Jack

3. Simon

4. Piggy