Festoon: a chain of lights, colored paper, flowers, etc., used to decorate sth
Tendril : a thin curling stem that grows from a climbing plant. A plant use tendrils to attach itself to a wall or other support.
Oppressive: treating people in a cruel and unfair way and not giving them the same freedom, rights, etc. as other people; (of weather) extremely hot and unpleasant and lacking fresh air; making you feel unhappy and anxious.
Inscrutable: if a person or their expression is inscrutable, it is hard to know what they are thinking or feeling, because they do not show any emotion.
Barb: the point of an arrow or hook that is curved backwards to make it difficult to pull out.
Bewilder: to confuse sb.
Flaunt: to show sth you are proud of to other people, in order to impress them.
Furtive: behaving in a way that shows that you want to keep sth secret and do not want to be noticed.
Glimmer: a faint unsteady light; a small sign of sth; to shine with a faint unsteady.
-How much time has passed since Chapter 2?
Several days has passed.
-What are Jack and Ralph doing at the beginning of this chapter?
Jack was hunting for a pig and Ralph was building the shelters.
-How often do they have meetings?
They have meetings twice a day.
-Why does Jack feel he understands the Littluns’ fears?
That’s because he had always been in the forest.
-How does Ralph and Jack’s relationship develop?
Their relationship got a little bit intense since Ralph had been blaming Jack for not killing a pig successfully.
-Where does Simon go and what does he do at the end of the chapter?
He went deep into the forest and reach a place where great sunshine could be experienced.
-Use Jack’s actions to explain what type of person he is.
He enjoyed hunting instead of building up shelters. We can see that he enjoyed behaving savagely instead of behaving like a civilized gentleman.
-What parallels are there between the way the boys act towards each other and the way the boys act towards their chores?
The boys who went hunting acted more aggressively towards other boys. By contrast, the boys who chose to build the shelters were more gentle and civilized in communications.
-How does chapter three change the perception of the island?
A feeling of mystery and unknown had been added on the island. The atmosphere became ghastly.
-Why weren’t they allowed to talk about the snakes?
That’s because snake represents evil in the Bible. As Christians, the boys could not talk about snakes.