Chapter 13 of Lord of the Flies

Despite the fact that Jack’s fear of not being chief ends badly, Ralph’s fear of not surviving has another whole level of bad endings. Ralph’s main concern when the boys crash into the island is being rescued, but because of this, he neglects other problems such as looking out for littluns. “’That litte’un – ‘gasped Piggy – ‘him with the mark of his face, I don’t see him. Where is he now?’” (Golding 46). Ralph is so blinded by the idea of being rescued that he forgets his priorities. He should be watching the littluns, but instead, he is being selfish and cares only about the fire. As a consequence to his poor action, an innocent life is taken away. Also when a ship comes by and Ralph realizes that the hunters let the fire out, he loses it and he yells at Jack, but “his voice was loud and savage, and struck them into silence. ‘There was a ship’” (Golding 74). This is the first time that Ralph shows any sign of savagery, which tells the readers that evil and savageness is

In the end, all the boys learn a lesson. They had many struggles and troubles of staying together as a group. Jack and his hunting group ended up setting the whole island on fire. “ The fire was a big one and the drum-roll that he has thought was left so far behind was nearer. Couldn't a fire outrun a galloping horse?” ( Chapter 12, Page 278) The horrific fire caught the attention of a naval vessel passing by the island. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he wakes up, he sees a British naval officer right over him.

“Listen, everybody. I’ve got to have time to think things out. I can’t decide what to do straight off. If this isn’t an island we might be rescued straight away. So we’ve got to decide if this is an island. Everybody must stay round here and wait and not go away. Three of us-if we take more we’d get all mixed, and lose each other-three of us will go on an expedition and find out. I’ll go, and Jack, and Simon.” (Golding, 24) The boys find that they are indeed on an island using Ralph’s intuition. “There’s no village smoke, and no boats,” said Ralph wisely. “We’ll make sure later; but I think it’s uninhabited.” (Golding, 30) Ralph concludes that they are alone on the island. Again we see Ralph using his leadership qualities to help the group

|left stranded on a deserted island with no adults. At first the boys cling to the principles and laws they were taught during |

Life on the island soon develops a daily rhythm. Morning is pleasant, with cool air and sweet smells, and the boys are able to play happily. By afternoon, though, the sun becomes oppressively hot, and some of the boys nap, although they are often troubled by bizarre images that seem to flicker over the water. Piggy dismisses these images as mirages caused by sunlight striking the water. Evening brings cooler temperatures again, but darkness falls quickly, and nighttime is frightening and difficult.

“We should get Ralph first, he’s the craftiest pig we know, he evaded and hide from us on the island we almost lost our chance we have to take it now and kill him. It will be our greatest hunt,” Roger snickered as he

Ralph immediately established rules and assured the boys that they would be rescued if they could keep a fire going. Ralph explained that if they could keep a fire going then they could use the smoke to signal passing ships to alert them of their presence on the island. Later, Ralph was observing the horizon and spotted smoke. Ralph quickly came to the realization that the smoke was coming from a ship. Then, he notices that the boys that were supposed to be monitoring the fire had let it die out.

After getting stuck on the island and swimming happily in the lagoon, Ralph reveals innocence, inexperience,

An early confrontation from Ralph can be noticed when the ship passes by with no fire. Jack boasts of hunting as Ralph exposes chance of rescue: “There was a ship. Out there. You said you’d keep the fire going and you let it out!” (70). In dissatisfaction, Ralph confronts, “They might have seen us. We might have gone home--” (70). Similar to Jack, Ralph decides to ignore the pride of killing the pig. By not acknowledging Jack, he is forced to accept the consequences. Ralph explains this in a straightforward way without room for dispute which allows clear understanding between them. Ralph continues to guide the group and keeps them under control. Although setting a concrete justification benefits all, he only focuses on the one goal of rescue without compromise. This establishes the desire of maintaining his level of control through outspoken disappointment. Ralph’s mistrust adjusts to worry as he expresses his thoughts on the conch. Piggy urges him to blow the conch but Ralph believes, “If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued” (92). Ralph fears that nobody assembling would represent their final loss of all morals. A conclusion is reached as Ralph establishes his inability to alter the boy’s actions. He avoids the conch’s use in

running away from the other boys or the savages and falls onto the beach only to get up and see a naval officer there. He was sure he was about to be corned and killed but luckily the forest fire that was used to flush Ralph out caught the ship’s attention. He talks to the man and then comes back to being a twelve-year-old boy and cries for his dead friend, the people they became, and

They all began to cry because they were now safe from all of the chaos. When Ralph finally loses all hope of being rescued, this officer put hope back in his heart. The island was finally somewhat civilized. None of the boys tell anything about any kids dying or missing. They definitely do not tell the naval officer they have been hunting and killing each other throughout the time they have been stranded on the island.

The epitome of psychotic thought. of is crazy by nature as evident when he follows Henry and starts throwing rocks at hit. Making sure not to hurt or kill henry, it gives roger a sense that hurting or killing him is exciting and only a matter of time before he realizes he can kill

“No, your not understanding, you let the fire out.” he interrupted me and shouted, “A ship just passed, we could be in our way back home by now!” Ralph lowered his head.

The current weather in the story is sunny. Ralph and Piggy find fruit in the jungle and mostly drink water that is found throughout the island. The boys health is currently good because Ralph and Piggy are salvaging for food and water and making sure they use their things carefully. The wreckage of the plane always remind them that Ralph's dad is coming to rescue them, but are slowly thinking no one is coming for them. Their first instincts is to work together and make sure they get off the island safe. Their social contract is the choir elected a leader for the group and chose Ralph to be their leader, but Ralph lets Jack decided to let his choir be hunters and both were happy with the plan. Ralph and Piggy know the island is a paradise because

The scream, anticipated by Ralph from the leader of the hunters, took him by surprise when it instead erupted from Roger. Jack, oddly unfazed by the unauthorized command, chose not to question him. Ralph whimpered slightly as Roger stepped forward, spear gripped tightly until his knuckles were white like sea foam. The savages looked on in ravenous, wolf-like anticipation.