Summary Of Lord Of The Flies

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

Piggy is the closest to an adult on the island, wanting to defend the conch, and wanting to keep rules and order. Without these Piggy will be

Ralph is an insufficient leader, which causes his society to greatly decline. Ralph creates the policy of only speaking when one holds the conch in their hands; only Ralph is allowed to interrupt since he is the leader. The boys are at the top of a mountain, defeated, because their fire didn’t stay lit. When Piggy tries to explain why it didn’t work, Jack interrupts him.

Following Simon’s brutal death, Ralph and Piggy find themselves searching, yet again, for something to provide stability amidst the atrocity encompassing Jack, Rodger and the hunters. The two contemplate what exactly what actions they should take, now that Jack and his hunters have succumbed completely to savagery. They look to the conch for help, Ralph taking “the shell caressingly with both hands” (156). Admiring the conch’s power and beauty, he is careful when touching it even when there is no one present to direct. Piggy, quick to suggest solutions reminds Ralph that he could call an assembly. Ralph laughs

Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash!"(pg. 152).This is an example of societal influences on the hunters since they were once choirboys now chanting to kill a pig is a big change in their lives knowing that they are on an island which is a life or death situation for them. Later on in the book, the leader of the tribe and the leader of the choir boys (Ralph and Jack) get in a huge argument leading to the boys splitting into two groups. The conflict of this action was that Ralph doesn’t have meat without Jack and Jack doesn’t have fire without Ralph.They both need each other in order to survive but one or the other wants to win so they feel more important than the other person.The scene played between Ralph and Jack is like social media to us knowing people want to be popular and known around the world thinking they have more power than ordinary people. Therefore one won’t stop arguing with the other person until there is only one leader on the island even if it means one person dying. This won’t benefit anyone if they are just arguing all the time because there are little kids relying on either Jack or Ralph to survive but if they end killing each other that will just make the percentage of the little kids surviving

He is a natural leader that tries to keep the boys focused on the end goal of rescue. When many of the boys begin to waver in their dedication to this goal, he reprimands them, saying “‘Do all of you see?...We’ve got to make smoke up there – or die.’” (Golding 81). He shows bravery when the boys are hunting the beast. When “Jack went red” (Golding 104) at the suggestion that he should confront the beast in its castle, Ralph says, “I'm chief. I'll go. Don't argue.” (Golding 104). A final example of his heroism is when he stands up for the weaker boys, such as the littluns (the younger boys) and Piggy. When Jack is angered with Ralph for trying to “Keep Piggy out of danger.” (Golding 101), Ralph says, “Have some sense. What can Piggy do with only one eye?” (Golding 101). Ralph is not afraid of becoming unpopular when he is trying to maintain order, but this may be one of his many unheroic flaws. Ralph is seemingly unable to comprehend that he must take into account what others want to do if he wants them to like him. He ignores their pleas for rest when they discover a castle-like structure and scolds them for not helping in the building of their shelters. While he may be right in the fact that they weren’t doing enough to help, he is harming his own image, contributing to the downfall of order. Additionally, Ralph is not immune to the inner evil within them all, as “Piggy and Ralph,

Ralph however holds his position of leadership and Jack forms his own tribe with his hunting party. When this happens, Ralph's tribe hits a low point and is struggling to keep their society stable. It is now when Jack seizes the opportunity, feeds all of Ralph’s people, exclaims “‘ I gave you food...my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?’” (Golding 150). This is the turning point for many of the boys because the loyalty to Ralph is not as strong as the comfort provided by Jack to their fear of the beast. Jack offers them everything that they want at the time and is very easy. After this decision however, they will be unable to overcome this fear and in fact, it will only become

Ralph unleashed stored frustration from being chief onto the the dead boar. He has become more savage-like and has even joined Jack and his hunters for the killing of a boar. He was being extremely vicious considering that he wanted to “squeeze and hurt” the flesh of a dead boar.

“Jack and Simon pretended to notice nothing. They walked you can’t come” (Golding 26). This quote portrays how Piggy is viewed by not being able to attend the adventure. While everything on the island was becoming

determined to get those specs back to light the fire, so Ralph and Piggy went up against the whole tribe

Ralph’s rationality is tested when he embarks on a hunting exhibition with Jack and the rest of the hunters. During this exhibition, Ralph is successful in sticking a pig with a spear. After sticking the pig, “Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride,” which is quite a variety of emotions (Golding 113). Ralph is scared of what he has done, but also proud that he, himself, accomplished what other’s speak so highly of. Although, he is also apprehensive because he can feel himself succumbing to the temptations of savagery and disregard for all law and order. However, Ralph “sunned himself in [the hunters] new respect and felt

Ralph shuddered; the chant still rang in his mind, over and over. Images ran through his mind. He watched Piggy falling from the cliff and Simon crying out as the other boys in Jack's tribe encircled him, trapping him before… he didn't finish the thought. In the corner of the room a conch shell glistened, he'd picked it up on the beach as they walked towards the boat. He had clutched it to his chest, much like Piggy had. The officers on the ship had shown him to his room and he hadn't left since, he had just sat on the bed, silent and still. Jack and the others were talking to the staff but Ralph hadn't said a word since he had first met the officer on the beach. He spent his time thinking about Piggy and Simon, what were they going to tell their families? How could they explain? He regretted everything that happened on the island. Their deaths were his fault. If he had just kept everyone together, none of this would have happened.

Ralph and Piggy believe that Jack and his tribe are after the conch, and leave it behind when they go to see what is going on at the other side of the island. Jack then begins to signal to the audience and the boys that the conch is now useless. It is has no meaning to anyone on the island, specifically his tribe. He indicates this statement by saying, “ You left it behind… and the conch doesn’t count on this side of the island-”(150).This passage from the novel exemplifies how the boys have lost their sense of command and order within one another. The message from the statement made by Jack is guiding the reader to see how each boy is transforming into a more ruthless individual, not caring about any rules or individuals in their lives. With author, William Golding, having the conch’s purpose be lost and forgotten begins to exhibit the children’s loss of reason within one another.

As time passes, Piggy comes to the realization that the boys and he may be trapped on the island for a long time. However, Ralph believes that his father will rescue them. Ralph and Piggy decide to set up a fire to signal ships that they are trapped on the island. Ralph is stuck on the idea that his dad will rescue all the boys. Expressing

At one point he eventually asks all the boys if they think he should be chief. None of the boys went up against Ralph so they did not say anything and Jack disappeared into the mountain. Eventually all the boys went up to the mountain with Jack for the meat, not his leadership skills, which unfortunately gave Jack most of the power. Everybody was gone except for Ralph, Piggy, and Samn'eric. Jack and his hunters come to attack Ralph, Piggy, and Samn’eric one night in their huts, stealing Piggie’s glasses and their fire.