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How To Write A Brief Summary Of Lord Of The Flies

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During a wartime evacuation, a British plane crashes on a lone island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The only survivors are young school boys aged between 9 and 18. Two boys named Ralph and an overweight boy nicknamed "Piggy" survived the crash and met up together. Still shocked, they find a conch-shell, which Ralph uses as a signal. This alerted all other survivors and they all assembled at the area of the noise. Due to the fact that Ralph appears responsible for bringing all the survivors together, he is elected as their leader. Although he does not receive the votes of the members of a boys' choir, led by Jack. Ralph lists three primary goals for the survivors to follow. That is to survive, have fun and to assemble a smoke signal to …show more content…

This tribe lures in recruits from the main group by providing fresh game in return to them. Its members quickly grew and began to paint their faces and participate in bizarre rituals to summon the beast. Returning to Ralph's tribe, Simon, wanders off on his own looking for peace. He comes across a severed pig head, left by Jack as an offering to the beast. Simon believes the pig head, now swarming with flies, as the "Lord of the Flies" and believes that it is speaking to him. The pig's head tells Simon that the boys themselves "created" the beast and claims that the real beast is within them all. While venturing alone, Simon also comes across a lifeless pilot hanging from a tree. He realizes that the pilot's parachute kept him hanging perceiving him as the "beast". Simon realized that this had been mistaken for the beast, and recognized that the "monster" is solely a human corpse. To continue on, Jack and his group decides that they should loot Piggy's glasses to start a fire on the island. They invade Ralph's camp, confiscate the glasses, and return to their base. Ralph, mostly abandoned by his supporters, journeys to Jack's camp to confront him and retrieve Piggy's

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