QUOTATION 1:

“This is our island.  It’s a good island.  Until the grownups come to fetch us we’ll have fun” (Golding 35).

Topic:  Ralph is assessing the island.

QUOTATION 2:

Lennie took his hands away from his face and looked about for George, and Curley slashed at his eyes.  The big face was covered with blood.  George yelled again,  “I said get him” (Steinbeck 63).

Topic:  George controls Lennie.

QUOTATION 3:

(ANTIGONE:)

Because it wasn't Zeus who pronounced these
things to me, nor did Justice, companion
of the gods below, establish such laws
for humanity.    (Sophocles 129)

Topic:  Antigone believes the gods’ laws are superior to man’s laws.

QUOTATION 4:

“Hardly none of the guys ever travel together.  I hardly never seen two guys travel together.  You know how the hands are, they just come in and get their bunk and work a month, and then they quit and go out alone.  Never seem to give a damn about nobody.  It jus’ seems kinda funny a cuckoo like him and a smart little guy like you travelin’ together.”

“He ain’t no cuckoo,” said George.  “He’s dumb as hell, but he ain’t crazy…” (Steinbeck 39)

Topic:  Slim and George analyze Lennie.

QUOTATION 5:

Ralph turned and smiled involuntarily.  Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar, and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg, even if one did it by accident…Piggy saw the smile and misinterpreted it as friendliness (Golding 65).

Topic:  Piggy misreads others’ actions.

QUOTATION 6:

 “I got the conch!  Just you listen!  The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach.  It wasn’t half cold down there in the night.  But the first time Ralph says ‘fire’ you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain.  Like a pack of kids!...How can you expect to be rescued if you don’t put first things first and act proper?” (Golding 45).

Topic:  Piggy is scolding the boys for their immaturity and lack of commitment to getting rescued.

QUOTATION 7:

 “You didn’t out to have let that fire out.  You said you’d keep the smoke going—“
            This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence.  The bolting look came into his blue eyes.  He took a step, and able at last to hit someone, stuck his fist into Piggy’s stomach.  Piggy sat down with a grunt.  Jack stood over him.  His voice was vicious with humiliation (Golding 71).

Topic:  Jack takes out his frustrations on Piggy.

QUOTATION 8:

ISMENE:

I do not dishonor them, but to do this
against the state—I have no strength for it.

ANTIGONE:

Use that excuse, if you like, but I indeed
will go and heap a tomb for my dearest brother.   (Sophocles 126)

Topic:  Antigone and Ismene disagree about following the law.

PARAGRAPH A:

Antigone believed it was inappropriate just to bury only one of her brothers. Creon’s motive to bury only Eteocles was because “Eteocles, who fell fighting in defense of the city, fighting gallantly, is to be honored with burial and with all the rites due to the noble dead. The other… his brother Polynices, who came back from exile intending to burn and destroy his fatherland…to make slaves- he is to have no grave, no burial” ( Sophocles 131). Creon’s perception of Polynices was that Polynices only wanted power and to enslave the Thebans. Antigone still considers unfair to have given only one the funeral, the love for her brother and not fear for punishment.