Lord Of The Flies Chapter Summary

In chapter 3 an argument breaks out between Ralph and Jack over the group's priorities. Ralph is trying to build shelters and an SOS fire while Jack and his hunters are craving some meat. I agree with Ralph wanting the priority to be on getting rescued and staying alive, but I disagree with him complaining about it because he is the leader and it's his job to get everyone working. With Jack I understand and agree that people will get tired of eating fruit and other foods similar to that, but I dislike how he's complaining when he's the one that is responsible for hunting. The argument that these two boys have are what I believe to be purely because of laziness. However if they don’t set things right, this problem is only going to

The naval officer took all the boys that were on the island to the ship. One by one they got on the ship and sat down quietly. Most of them thought about the things that happen on the island like what happen to Piggy and Simon and the littlun with a mulberry-colored mark on his face. Others thought about what they were going to do when they got home with their families and how their families were going to react. Ralph thought about his friend, Piggy, and how he got killed. Jack thought about his mom and what would happen if she knew what he did on the island. Everyone’s faces seemed shocked by the news that they were rescued. Ralph seem like he wanted to say something, but he was too shocked to even say a word. The naval officer asked the littluns what their name was but some of them did not even remember their names not even Percival.

Jack using his hunting skills finds a pig and attempts to catch it but fails. On his way back to the beach he finds Simon and Ralph building shelters by themselves. Ralph begins to get frustrated because the hut he working on keeps falling apart. He states that everyone would be excited about an idea and work on it for a few days but then they lose interest and do their own thing. Jack reminds Ralph that he is chief and he should tell the other boys off. Ralph then pointed out that Jack always goes out to hunt but never bring any meat back. Jack argument is that everyone wants meat and that he will soon catch a pig. Ralph bring up that the little ones are having nightmares at night as a reason to have shelters because it’ll resemble a home

By the last chapter of the book, Simon and Piggy, the symbols of innocence and rationality, have died, and the rest of the boys have turned to complete anarchy. Jack and his group embark on a chase to hunt Ralph down. After hiding in a thicket for a while, the boys find him, and he stabs one of them with his stick. In an act of revenge, they burn down the island to smoke Ralph out. He runs out of the forest and bumps into one of the savages. The fair-haired boy “[launches] himself like a cat; [stabs], snarling, with the spear…” (12. 166). His animal instincts kick in, helping him listen for approaching footsteps and allowing him to recognize signals exchanged between the members of Jack’s pack. He hears the signal of attack and he “[speeds] away again, till his chest [is] like fire” (12.166). Through his inner beast, he is able to defend himself, and after the man-hunt, land at the foot of a naval officer. Even though he does not use the most civilized methods to get away from his pursuers, his savagery saves his life and causes him to get

The theme from chapter 5 tells that Ralph is losing his innocence quickly, but gaining an understanding of natural processes not available to him in the sheltered society he came from. “With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay”. At that moment, he began to trot toward the platform and the civilization it represents, in a physical reaction to the abstract truth newly present within him. Ralph is sick of the savagery he sees around him, but this savagery is characterized by accumulated dirt. The physical filth on the surface becomes a symbol of the metaphorical filth of evil residing in each boy, that itself will soon struggle to be unleashed on the

In this chapter we are introduced again to Eliza and George on their journey to Canada. They are still at Rachel’s home but will be picked up soon by a man named Phineas. Eliza encouraged George to become a christian again, but George is having a hard time believing in God at the moment, do to everything he and his wife have gone through. All in all, they agree that their main focus is getting to Canada for Harry and their family, and soon Phineas arrives to take them to their next stop. As they’re going, Phineas tells them that their are people looking for them and they’re very close by. A man named Michael soon tells them that the people are coming for them and are extremely close by. Phineas takes them up a hill and they take shelter in the rocks on the top of the hill, but sure enough they’re spotted by Tom Loker and Marks (with some

The next morning Ralph tries to light the fire without piggy’s glasses but failed. Ralph and his group goes to Castle Rock to reason with Jack but was stopped by guards. Jack soon shows up with a pig and asks Ralph to leave but Ralph demands that Jack return piggy’s glasses. Jack attacks Ralph and they begin to fight. Ralph tries to get Jack to understand the importance of the signal fire but instead of listening Jack tells his tribe to capture the twins and tie them up. Ralph and Jack begin to fight again. During the fight Roger push a big rock down the mountain side causing Piggy to break the conch shell and falling to his death. Jack and his tribe starts to throw spears at Ralph and torture the twins forcing them to join his

Ralph and his crew attempt to start up the signal fire but they are unable to because Piggy’s glasses were stolen by Jack and his tribe so they go to retrieve the glasses and try to make the other boys see reason. Ralph, carrying the one symbol left of order and civilization, the conch, hopes to regain authority so to increase their chances of rescue. However, Jack and his tribe are too focused on the threat of attack both on them physically and mentally because what Ralph stands for is in direct competition with the way they are now thinking. When Ralph comes to their camp he is met with armed guards who throw rocks around them like warning bullets signaling that they aren’t afraid to throw to hit. As Jack emerges from the forest dragging

“What wrong with that boy Doc, why’s he so afraid to be with the other children?” Inquired the captain.

When Ralph goes to confront Jack, he as well as the other boys find out Jack and his gang of hunters have made their first kill and are so excited that they totally disregard the fact that they just lost a chance at being rescued to instead do a demonstration of how they killed the pig. Jack was too wrapped up in his mind which “was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink” (Golding 70). After his incident, Jack proclaims himself the leader and impales the pig’s head on a stick to assert his dominance. This shows the moment humanity ceased to matter on the island. Ralph realizes this and laments to himself, “The world, tat understandable and lawful world, was slipping away…” (Golding

Ralph and Piggy realize that with the death of Simon, Sam and Eric are the only biguns remaining in their group. There are a handful of littluns that still follow Ralph but the majority have went to Jack’s group.

The ride back to civilization was quiet and somber. The echoes of Ralph’s grief hung heavy on the boy’s minds and hearts, while the weight of their sins settling on their shoulders. The officers came and went, asking for names, serving food and water, and cleansing their wounds. Samneric were badly burned and bruised, Maurice was missing, and Jack was unharmed by the flames. “How ironic that it was your manhunt, but you come out unscathed?” Ralph suddenly questioned in the quiet. Jack kept silence, terrified by the possibility of punishment. Ralph scoffed “Nothing to say huh?” he waited for a beat. “Thought so.” The boys settled into a startled silence, and Jack, somehow, became quieter.

After Jack goes off to hunt, Ralph finds him and describes him, “The forest near them burst into uproar. Demoniac figures with faces of white and red and green rushed out howling...stark naked save for the paint and a belt was Jack” (125). Soon after the boys arrive on the island, Jack has turned to hunting with a painted face and a spear. Though back home he would probably not be prone to violence, being on an island with no adult supervision is enough to make the boys forget about their civil lives. The boys later go as far as to accidentally kill one of their own, Simon, “ The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water. At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws” (136). The boys think that the beast is a mysterious creature when it is in fact Simon, one of the boys. In a mad rage, the hunters end up killing him, with Ralph and Piggy watching. The boys start as cultured boys with manners and end up as brutal killers. The book argues that the spirit of war, or savagery was in them all along, and was simply brought out because of the change of the environment from a society and a family to a desert

Jack blows the conch clumsily and claims to have seen the beast. He then announces that Ralph is a coward and should no longer be acting as chief but no one agrees. Infuriated Jack decides he's going to start his own tribe and those who wish to join him are welcome to as. He runs off and once again the hunters follow. Ralph does not know what to do and falls into a depression. Piggy sensing this makes the suggestion to build a new signal fire. As they complete this task many of the boys slip away to join Jack where he declares himself as chief. Together they inhumanely slaughter a sow by shoving a spear through its anus. They place its head on a sharpened stake and leave it as a sort of peace offering to the beast. In order to cook the meat,

When the boys first land upon the island, the moral allegiance of each boy is unknown, and this leads to each boys acting normally as if they were still in the company of those in the old world: the world of peace, normalcy, and diplomacy. When Simon, Jack, and Ralph elect themselves to explore and go hunting, they come across an unusual sight. A small pig has become ensnared in a bundle of creepers, unable to move. Jack removes the knife from his sheath, and moves forward to collect his kill, and subsequently meat for the rest of the boys; however, he fails to complete this task. Jack cannot bear to take the life of another creature, and