Lord of The Flies

Chapter 12: Cry of the Hunters
The End On The Smoky Shore
Perspective: Ralph

After talking to Samneric I hid in a thicket close to the guard tower thinking I would diddle them. As I was leaving to go hide Sam gave me some meat from the feast. I feel terrible for Samneric. They were forced to join Jack's tribe and now they are too scared of Jack and Roger to escape. I couldn't hear exactly what Sam said as I left to hide but he said something about Roger sharpening a stick on both ends. But I don't know what that could mean. Jack tortured Samneric until the twins told him where I was hiding. Then Jack lit the whole forest ablaze to flush me from my hiding spot. The cordon followed me ululating the whole way. When I fled to the beach I saw a naval ship and a naval officer dressed in fine drill onshore. I was first to see the officer but others came as well. Jack appeared in his old choir cap holding Piggy's glasses. We all realized we'd forgotten who we were. Percival had even forgotten his own name. I took responsibilitiy for everything that had happened. The naval officer was disapointed in us for killing eachother and not knowing how many of us were left.

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Chapter 11: Castle Rock
Fine White Shards

1. Piggy tells Ralph to blow on the conch and call an assembly.

2. Piggy will tell Jack that he must give him back his glasses because it is the right thing to do.

3. Ralph says that they will look like they did before they became savages. They will wash and comb their hair.

4. Roger challenges them on their approach to Castle Rock.

5. Jack has been hunting when he appears.

6. Ralph provokes a fight with Jack by calling him a thief.

7. During the truculent fight Jack's tribe captures Samneric. Then afterwards Jack and Roger begin to prod Samneric with their spears.

8. Roger is throwing rocks without cessation during Piggy's plea for a return to decency.

9. I believe Roger is responsible for Piggy's death. In the book Roger leans on a lever which releases a boulder which kills Piggy and destroys the talisman that is the conch. In the book it never says Roger was ordered by anyone to release the boulder. Before he releases the boulder he's the only one in Jack's tribe besides Jack himself to become physically aggressive towards Ralph's tribe by throwing stones. The book says he leaned on the lever out of delirious abandonment. Meaning it was him who acted alone in killing Piggy. I believe it was Roger who killed Piggy and no one else.

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Chapter 10: The Shell and The Glasses
The Idle Conch
Perspective: Simon

Ralph and Piggy have a discussion about my death the morning after the feast. Ralph accepts blame for my death but Piggy tries to denounce the blame. Piggy says that it was dark and stormy and that everyone was scared. He also blames Jack's dance for making everybody crazy. Nobody wants to admit that they were there when I was killed.

Jack rules his tribe through fear. Jack promises instant security but has no long term survival plan. He ties up and beats Wilfred for no apparent reason. Jack tries to pretend that they fought the beastie last night instead in fact killing me. He says that the beastie disguised itself as me. He tells his tribe to be on the lookout for the beast because it might come back for a fight.

Jack tells Roger and Maurice that they will go raid Ralph's camp and take Piggy's specs so they can make fire. Jack's tribe sneaks into Ralph's camp and attacks Ralph's tribe. They take the glasses and go back to castle rock.

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Chapter 8: A Gift For The Darkness
The Beast's Servants

I think the scene when Simon talks to the Lord of the Flies is the most interesting. Ralph, Jack, and the hunters go looking for the beastie. They end up on the other side of the island. They send Simon to go tell Piggy who is back with the littluns that they will be back in the morning. While Simon is going to tell Piggy he finds the fly covered pig's head on the stake. The pig's innards are on the ground completely covered by flies. The flies make a giant buzzing noise. It forms a disgusting and terrible picture in your head. Then the Lord of the Flies starts to talk to Simon. He tells Simon that the beast is the darkness in every man's heart. Then The Lord of he Flies tells Simon to go away. Instead Simon passes out.

Chapter 9: A View to a Death
The Beast's Death

I believe nobody is responsible for Simon's death. Everyone at the feast was involved in beating him to death. However I believe they can't be to blame because it was dark and stormy and they couldn't be sure it was him and not the beastie. I believe they acted in self defense. I believe none of the boys are responsible for Simon's death. It was a dark night and the boys acted in self defense against something they thought had come to harm them.

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Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees
The Dance of The Dead Pig
Perspective: Piggy

1. After they spear the pig they pretend Robert is a pig. They dance around him in a ring and pretend to beat and kill him. They do this aggressively as if playing a game of rugger. Ralph is the one who spears the pig. Afterward the boys are excited and start thinking of more ways to do the dance.

2. Jack suggests using a littlun in their hunter dance. It foreshadows the separation of the biguns and littluns turning into violence.

3. The boys see a lump that looks like a rock in a place a rock shouldn't be. With bravado they approach the rock and it moves and makes a noise. They get scared and run away. They are so gullible and not sagely because they have imaginations, it's dark, and have it in their minds that they are going to find the beast.

Piggy Question

1. I think the game the boys play after they spear the pig is dangerous. Robert got hurt during it and people take it too far. If I were them I'd feel dun after doing something like that but they get a real thrill out of it. They seem impervious to the person unlucky enough to get caught in the circle's feelings.

Mr. Curran I got home late from practice and had to catch up to chapter 8 through the audio.

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Chapter 6: Beast From Air
The Hunt and The Fort
Perspective: Ralph

1. The sign from the grown up world is a pilot who got shot down, bailed out, and landed on the island.

2. The boys don't know about the pilot because he was shot down at night and because they have no idea about how things have escalated in the war because they've been so concentrated on survival.

3. Sam and Eric are so terrified because they're so young and believe the pilot is the beastie.

4. Sam and Eric describe the beast as having long claws, sharp teeth, wings, being very fast, and being a leviathan.

5. Jack is very impulsive and waxy about finding and killing the beast and Ralph is more cautious and considerate about other things. Ralph is concerned about keeping the signal fire going, protecting the shelters, and keeping the littluns safe.

6. I don't think there is a beast because Jack and his hunters have explored every part of the island even the new guano covered rocky area and haven't found a beast.

Ralph Questions

1. I don't feel I'm the strongest leader anymore. Most of the older boys follow Jack because he follows his impulses and doesn't impose as many rules on them as I have. However the littluns follow me but could easily be persuaded to follow Jack

2. As chief I feel responsible for ensuring everyone's safety, preventing mutiny against me, and getting us rescued from this seemingly interminable event. I also feel I must prevent us from becoming embroiled with each other.

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Chapter 5: Beast From The Water
Talk of Beasts
Perspective: Jack

1. Ralph calls an assembly to try and reassert his power as chief.

2. Ralph brought up the matter of never letting the fire go out. He brought up using the rocks by the ocean as a bathroom and created the new rule that the only fire on the island can be the signal fire on top of the mountain. Ralph said that none of us are doing are assigned jobs and that that needs to change. The concern of the beastie was brought up which cast an incantation of fear even amongst the older boys.

3. I'm furious at the thought of being so unfairly blamed for providing us with food at the cost of the fire. Ralph does nothing for us. He sits around and makes rules while the rest of us work to keep us alive. I find it ludicrous Ralph thinks that fire is more important than meat. Without meat we'll all become weak and sickly.

4. We are extremely divided now especially since the fire incident. Ralph believes the fire will get us saved and I think the meat will keep us alive. It's these differences in opinion and fear which are splitting us in two.

5. The littluns lament in their sleep because they're afraid of the beastie.

6. The littlun Percival said the beast rises out of the water which stopped even the older boys' jeering.

7. I think the dirtiest thing about human nature is the want to survive at the cost of others' lives.

Jack Question

1. I hate Ralph because he's chief. I can't believe they elected him instead of me. He has no experience leading. I can't play second to someone as weak as him. I hate how he puts the priority of the fire before hunting and how he creates rules while we slave to help everyone. He is an effigy of fool selfishness.

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Chapter 4: Painted Faces and Long Hair
The Price of The Pig
Perspective: Simon

1. In England there was always meat and other foods on hand but on the island we have to go search and hunt for food. Also in England it wasn't as sunny. On the island I've been burnt by the sun many times. It has given me a swarthiness. I'm also having trouble living without my family.

2. The littluns don't understand how serious the situation we're in is. I feel bad about the older boys treating them badly. I'm jealous of the littluns ignorance of the situation.

3. The littluns spend their time off eating and playing. They explore the forest and play on the beach. They don't help with the work but they're young and they haven't officially been given jobs.

4. Jack believes the pigs have been evading the hunters because they can see them. The hunters paint their faces as camouflage so the hunter's presence will be impalpable.

5. I think the hunters painting their faces foreshadows the transformation of us into wild animals to survive. I think we'll become as wild as the marks on our faces.

6. The hunters get a rush of primitive aggression when they paint their faces. It makes them feel wild before the hunt.

7. The passing ship doesn't see us on the island because the signal fire goes out.

8. The fire went out because the hunters tending it went hunting with Jack and left the fire to burn out.

Simon Questions

1. Tensions are high due to the hunters letting the fire die right before a ship was spotted. Ralph and Jack both had a belligerent argument which neither won. The littluns are running crazy but are happy. The hunters seem somewhat happy because of their first kill and the now assured promise of meat. There are high tensions and no order.

2. I think there'll be more conflict. I think the gap between the hunters and everyone else will continue to grow malevolently larger until it breaks out into violence. I see no balm to our problems.

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Chapter 3: Huts on The Beach
I Give Up
Perspective: Piggy

1. At this point I don't care what happens to the rest of 'em. But the little 'uns done nothing wrong so I think they need a shelter. There was a susurration about a beastie slithering among the tendrils of the creepers. Although the older boys don't believe there's a beast the little ones are scared senseless. They need a shelter so they can feel safer during the nights.

2. The choir boys have been assigned as hunters and the tenders of the signal fire. Meanwhile Ralph and Simon have been trying to create shelters. To add to the vicissitudes most of the boys wander off to relax on the island. I'd gladly help out but no one seems to want me around as company. The little ones have no jobs.

3. Most of us boys aren't pulling their weight on this island. To most of the boys there is a compulsion to go swimming, eat, relax, and enjoy the newfound freedom of the island. There is no order.

4. The most important task for survival is the establishment of order. If we don't have order, if people don't carry out their jobs we'll fall into chaos. Everything else can wait but we need people to be responsible and carry out their tasks.

5. Simon is small, skinny, has black hair, a pointed chin, and has a tan. He's the nicest one here. He's stood up for me when Jack's started yelling at me. He's kind and helpful and has been rapt in helping Ralph with the shelters.

6. If we aren't rescued soon fighting will break out. Nobody cares about survival here. They're all just having fun. If we don't pull together there will be fighting perhaps even escalating to violence.

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Chapter 2: Fire on The Mountain
A Test of My Leadership
Perspective: Ralph

1. I believe this is a good island. It has fresh water, fruit, and animals. I feel we are lucky to be stranded on this island in oppose to one with none of the resources found here. Also there are no adults. This island is where we rule.

2. The beastie if it exists is a snake like creature.

3. The beastie represents a trial of unity and strength in the future.

4. The beastie is an opportunity to prove my leadership and make up for my mistake of the lost little one. It will also give us experience in hunting and learning more about the island.

5. We might not be rescued soon so we need to settle into a survival routine. Once we've done that we can put more effort into being rescued. I plan to make smoke signals for any near boats or planes to see. This will surely get us rescued.

6. This island is a great adventure. I'd love to stay here a while. I feel a great ebullience here. This is a place where we are the kings. I feel like capering through the forest all though not in front of the other boys. I do not want to spend the rest of my life here but I do want to stay a while.

7. We started the fire by pinching Piggy's spectacles and using them to magnify the sun on some wood we gathered. Unfortunately the fire went out of control and scorched a great deal of the forest.

8. The missing boy was Piggy's responsibility. I left him to take names and count heads a simple enough task for him. When he failed at that the fatty recriminated saying everybody is to officious to help me that we are ignoring the basics of survival. I know he's right though. If I'm to remain chief I cannot blame my failure on a subordinate.

9. I unlike everybody else have no fear. I see this as an adventure. I'm a leader. I think that boy Jack and I share a great many similarities. We both see this as an adventure and we both stand out as leader figures.

10. As I go to sleep I think about the adventure tomorrow holds. I 'm not frightened at the slightest.

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Chapter 1: The Sound Of The Shell
My Title: The Fool Shell
Perspective: Jack Merridew

1. The island we have found ourselves on is of relatively small size. The whole island can be observed from a mountain peak on the island. The island is surrounded by a reef. Most of the island is covered in lush close to impassable undergrowth.

2. The war against Germany has made many parents make the decision to send their children away to places safe from the war. My school had sent us away by plane to a safe sanctuary. During the flight a violent storm brought the plane down and that seems to be our current predicament.

3. I'm Jack. I'm the precentor of the boy's choir at my school. Simon is a member of the choir who I am quite familiar with.

4. From what we've observed this island seems uninhabited. During the crash we believe the pilot, the only adult with us to have been killed.

5. The conch had the power to bring together this new communion. During the hectic hours after the crash the beckoning call of the conch offered organization and safety. The conch's glamour was able to entice enough of the boys into electing that boy Ralph as our chief. I personally feel it's a child's trinket not worthy of recognition as anything special or important.

6. My choir's new responsibilities are those of hunters. I know them well and I know we will do a very good job in feeding us.

Jack Questions

1. I feel the election of Ralph as our leader to be a grave mistake. I have leadership experience with the school choir. The specious power of that shell is the only reason anybody would ever even notice him. I am the stronger man. I feel as though I've been cheated of my rightful leadership position.

2. The sparing of the pig was that of mercy and justness. Killing an animal in such a position as was it would be barbaric and an enormity. Although I say this I know truly it was the taking of life which stopped me from bringing down the blade. I know I must be stronger in such situations if I wish to regain control of this "tribe".