Lord of The Flies

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.