- “Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon” (28)
- This quote talks about Henry, who is apart of the choir, and when the littluns arrived, they were wearing their choir jackets
2. “Henry was the biggest of them” (pdf 83)
– “Them” indicates the little ones. Henry is bigger than the rest of the little ones but smaller than the big ones.
3. “This was fascinating to Henry. He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers” (pdf 85)
- This quote shows the readers that Henry has a interest in nature.
4. “There were little boys, fair, dark, freckled, and all dirty, but their faces were all dreadfully free of major blemishes. No one had seen the mulberrycolored birthmark again” (122).
- This quote does not talk in particular about one certain littlun, but it is the overall appearance of them all.
5. “They were dirty, not with the spectacular dirt of boys who have fallen into mud or been brought down hard on a rainy day. Not one of them was an obvious subject for a shower, and yet—hair, much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or a twig; faces cleaned fairly well by the process of eating and sweating but marked in the less accessible angles with a kind of shadow; clothes, worn away, stiff like his own with sweat, put on, not for decorum or comfort but out of custom; the skin of the body, scurfy with brine—” (pdf 157)
- This quote explains how the boys became dirty.
6. “The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own” (61)
- The readers can assume that Henry is about 6 years old.
7. “They were very brown, and filthily dirty” (61)
- This quote shows that the Littluns are very filthy and have dirt all over them
8. “And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose” (61)
- The boys became dirty as they haven’t showered for a long time.
9. “On the beach, Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival who was crying quietly again” (pdf 94)
- The readers can assume that Henry would be covered in sand.
These quotes are from the novel, “Lord of the Flies” written by William Golding. The quotes are descriptions of Henry, a character in this novel. He is one of the little ones, so we assume that he is about 6 years old. Henry is the biggest one among the little ones. Therefore, the readers can assume that he is quite big as a 6 years old. The readers can know other things about his appearance. In the first part of the story, when the boys have just arrived at the island, Henry wore the choir’s uniform : a long cape. However, as the time went on, Henry became dirty as he has dirt on his body and his hair became long and tangly.