Lord Of The Flies Chapter Summaries

The Lord of the Flies is a story about a group of boys who are stranded on an island. There aren’t any adults with them because the plane they were on had crashed and the pilot died, he had been the only adult with them. That main character Ralph is elected chief of the boys and is supposed to be in charge, but finds it hard to keep control. Ralph believes the most important thing is to keep the fire going, so that if a ship passes by they can get rescued. As the story goes on dissent begins to form among the other boys. The leader of this dissent was Jack. He had wanted to have control from the beginning and was fed up with Ralph’s rules.

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The setting is of great importance in the opening chapter of the novel. Golding set the Lord of the Flies on an island that has both the good and dark side to it. It was clear from the beginning that there were no humans on the island because of the perfect landscape - with lots of fruits and animals. There was nothing but absolute beauty on the island. When the boys arrived on the island, initially they are excited about being in this perfect, idyllic paradise away from adults but as the chapter gradually continues, Golding gives subtle hints such as “long scar” and “the upheavals of fallen trees and scattered with decaying coconuts” to show that the island also has a dangerous, inimical side to it, just like life without civilization and

Many times there are different groups in society who fight and don’t get along real well. That is the majority of this book. Two groups of kids in which one group feels safety and rescue is the way to go. The other hunting and being uncivilized, and carefree. The civilized more organized and having rules group is Ralph’s. The group being uncivilized and thinking that hunting is going to save them is Jack’s group also known as his choir.

It is agreed among the boys that Ralph, the main protagonist of the story, is to serve as chief. Ralph then elects Jack Merridew as the leader of the hunters. The boys play around while they wait to be rescued, but Ralph is frustrated by their lack of concern and wants to focus on their rescue. Tension arises between Jack and Ralph because Jack is power-hungry and envious of Ralph. Additionally, Jack and Ralph have different focuses on the island.

Fear has influenced the boys’ reaction/interpretation of the Beast immensely in this chapter. In the beginning of they story all of them were having fun with no adults and no freedom, but now the Beast has caused all of them to change. Most of them have become more fearful and some have even claimed to see the Beast. Although the Beast might exist, the fears in Sam and Eric’s heads have made them imagine the creature is scarier than it actually is. Fear can bring out the worst and best of people, and I am very anxious to see how it will affect the boys later on in the story. Additionally, the Beast seems to have made Jack appear even more obsessed about hunting, while it expresses Simon’s intelligence even more. For example, when he pictured

Ralph and Piggy take the shell to Jack crew and try to restore order but attempting that failed so Ralph and Jack quickly got into a brawl and a huge boulder falls down the cliff and kills Piggy. Jack quickly lunged his sword at Ralph but he missed him and Ralph takes advantage and runs away. So Jack starts to run after Ralph while they are chasing each other the twins start getting beaten up by Roger. After hours Jack returns to his crew and tries once again to find Ralph which took him to the beach where everyone child saw the naval officer rescuing them.

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

During a war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys is shot down over an island. Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell on the beach. Piggy says that the conch shell could be used to call meetings. The boys elect a leader and try to figure out a way to be rescued. They choose Ralph as the leader. Ralph then appoints Jack as head of the hunters, whose job is to get food for the group. Ralph, Jack, and Simon explore the island. Ralph says that they must build a signal fire to attract passing ships. The light some wood by funneling sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s glasses. The boys play games instead of monitoring the fire, and the flames burn the forest. One of the youngest boys in the group disappears, and thought to have burned to death.

They do this to offer something to the beast, so it will not attack them. This pig head is the lord of the flies. As Ralph and the others start to build a new signal fire, Simon goes off into the forest. Here, he encounters the head on a stick surrounded by flies. Simon then has a dream that the lord of the flies in speaking to him and tells him that he will never escape. After, Simon climbs to the top of the mountain where he discovers the dead parachutist and realizes that the only monsters on the island are the boys themselves. Simon returns back to the island to share the truth with all of them but just as he is returning, the boys are in the middle of a feast. When the boys see Simons figure emerge from the jungle, they kill him believing him to be the beast. Simon’s dead body then washes out into the ocean. The next morning, Jack’s tribe attacks the few people left with Ralph and still Piggy’s glasses, which is how they start their fire. Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric then march over to Jack’s group in an attempt to get the glasses back but Jack ties Sam and Eric up. Then, Roger, one of Jack’s boys, rolls a boulder off the mountain, killing Piggy and destroying the

A story from a naval officer has just come in. This uncovers the case of the disappearance of the British boys who disappeared along with the pilot of the plane and the plane during a an evacuation prior to the threats of an atom bomb. At the dawn of World War Two this isn’t an uncommon case. The boys are of the approximate age of six to thirteen. A search has been going on and the discovery of the boys alive is a miracle on earth. Although, the story doesn’t have a complete happy ending. After interviewing various boys we have to come to the clear consensus that this story wasn’t all merry and bright. This quote comes from one of the boys,who could barely tell us through his tears that his name is Ralph. “It was all fun, we were doing well.

Now, all of the boys are under the lead of Jack, and everyone turns against Ralph. They all start to hunt Ralph, who hides in a cave. To try and drive him out, they roll a boulder down to crush him. However, it doesn’t work, and Ralph is still in the cave. After it fails, they set the jungle on fire to get him to leave. The whole jungle quickly goes up in flames. Ralph runs to the beach, being chased by the other boys. They find a navy officer standing on the beach, who had seen the fire. The boys are all rescued.

“Then Jonah went out from the city and sat east of it. There he made a shelter for himself and sat under it in the shade until he could see what would happen in the city. So the Lord God appointed a plant and it grew up over Jonah to be a shade over his head to deliver him from his discomfort. And Jonah was extremely happy about the plant.But God appointed a worm when dawn came the next day and it attacked the plant and it withered. When the sun came up God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint and begged with all his soul to die, saying, 'Death is better to me than life. '

A little less than a year ago I sat in my family room furiously working on an English paper about Lord of the Flies. It was Monday night and my paper was due the next day. The only noise you could here was the sound of my computer’s keys clicking away. Around nine thirtyish I hung up from saying goodnight to my Dad. He was across the state at work and had an early morning the next day. His intention was to get as much work in before he came home that Wednesday. My mother and sister, Breanne, had left for Lignano Sabiadoro, Italy the day before. Breanne was competing with the twirling group she is a part of in the world competition. My father and I along with my grandparents on my mom’s side were expected to fly out on Thursday to join them. The plan was to see the competition results then spend Easter there. After that we would spend an extra week in France and London. But until then I had to focus on finishing up all of my school work. Naturally, all of my classes either had tests or papers due before break. The Lord of the Flies paper was at the top of my list to get done. I remember being proud of my work as I plowed through it. Then I saw my phone light up and my dad’s contact scroll across the screen.

Ralph expresses to be the realistic person. Throughout the novel, Ralph is able to see the wrong and right of the group’s actions. He tries to show order. When the others were goofing off, Ralph knew certain things must get done to survive on the island. Shelters needed to be built, keeping clean, was to show leadership and have a type of government. The conch is good example of Ralph’s doing, it allowed each boy to speak equally without chaos. His example helped coordinate the group’s survival rate very well in the beginning. As time went on, one of the boys, Jack, started to break rules and acted barbarically. Jack even starts to build his own group. Ralph does not understand the point of trying