SPECULATE: v. speculated, speculating, speculates. — intr. 1. To meditate on a subject; reflect. 2. To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence. 3. To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit. — tr. To assume to be true without conclusive evidence. BBC announces first TV adaptation of William Golding's Lord of the Flies". 20 April 2023 . Retrieved 20 April 2023. We’ve got to talk about this fear and decide there’s nothing in it. I’m frightened myself, sometimes; only that’s nonsense! Like bogies. Then, when we’ve decided, we can start again and be careful about things like the fire.” A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind. “And be happy.” For a littlun he was self-confident, holding out his hands, cradling the conch as Ralph did, looking round at them to collect their attention before he spoke.

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a b c Monteith, Charles. "Strangers from Within." William Golding: The Man and His Books, edited by John Carey, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1987. Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by the Nobel laureate British author William Golding. The plot concerns a group of British boys who are stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempts to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. Nobody knows where we are,” said Piggy. He was paler than before and breathless. “Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there.” He gaped at them for a moment, then swayed and sat down. Ralph took the conch from his hands. Piggy was speaking now with more assurance and with what, if the circumstances had not been so serious, the others would have recognized as pleasure.

Ralph turned to the chief's seat. They had never had an assembly as late before. That was why the place looked so different. Normally the underside of the green roof was lit by a tangle of golden reflections, and their faces were lit upside down, like - thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands. But now the sun was slanting in at one side, so that the shadows were here they ought to be. They quietened,y slowly, and at last were seated again. Ralph dropped down and spoke in his ordinary voice, SNIVEL: intr.v. sniveled or snivelled, sniveling or snivelling, snivels or snivels. 1. To sniffle. 2. To complain or whine tearfully. 3. To run at the nose. — snivel n. 1. The act of sniffling or sniveling. 2. Nasal mucus. — sniveler n. CROON: v. crooned, crooning, croons. — intr. 1. To hum or sing softly. 2. To sing popular songs in a soft, sentimental manner. 3. Scots. To roar or bellow. — tr. 1. To sing softly or in a humming way. — croon n. A soft singing or humming. — crooner n. Argument started again. Ralph held out the glimmering conch and Maurice took it obediently. The meeting subsided.You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see?" He spread his arms wide and turned to the whole triangle. IRIDESCENT: adj. Abbr. irid. 1. Producing a display of lustrous, rainbowlike colors. 2. Brilliant, lustrous, or colorful in effect or appearance. — iridescently adv. At last Ralph induced him to hold the shell but by then the blow of laughter had taken away the child’s voice. Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.