Lord of the flies
Publié le 02/10/2013
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The prospect of exploring the island exhilarates the boys, who feel a bond forming among
them as they play together in the jungle.
From the peak, they can see that they are on an island
with no signs of civilization.
The view is stunning, and Ralph feels as though they have
discovered their own land.
As they travel back toward the beach, they find a wild pig caught
in a tangle of vines.
Jack, the newly appointed hunter, draws his knife and steps in to kill it,
but hesitates, unable to bring himself to act.
The pig frees itself and runs away, and Jack vows
that the next time he will not flinch from the act of killing.
The three boys make a long trek
through dense jungle and eventually emerge near the group of boys waiting for them on the
beach.
Chapter 2
When the explorers return, Ralph tells the group that there are no adults on the island and that
they need to organize a few things to look after themselves.
Jack reminds Ralph of the pig
they found trapped in the vines, and Ralph agrees that they will need hunters to kill animals
for meat.
Ralph declares that the conch shell will be used to determine which boy has the right
to speak.
Piggy yells about the fact that no one knows they have crashed on the island and that they
could be stuck there for a long time, which scared all the group.
One of the younger children,
a small boy with a mulberry-colored mark on his face, claims that he saw a snakelike
“beastie” or monster the night before.
But, the older boys try to reassure the group that there is
no monster.
The older boys say that the little boy’s vision was only a nightmare.
Thinking about the possibility of rescue, Ralph proposes that the group build a large signal
fire on top of the island, so that any passing ships might see the fire and know that someone is
trapped on the island.
The boys collect a mound of dead wood and use the lenses from Piggy’s glasses to focus the
sunlight and set the wood on fire.
They manage to get a large fire going, but it quickly dies
down.
Jack volunteers his group of hunters to be responsible for keeping the signal fire going.
In their frenzied, disorganized efforts to rekindle the fire, the boys set a swath of trees ablaze.
Enraged at the group’s reckless disorganization, Piggy tells them furiously that one of the
littlest boys—the same boy who told them about the snake-beast—was playing over by the
fire and now is missing.
The boys are crestfallen and shocked, and Ralph is struck with
shame.
They pretend that nothing has happened.
Chapter 3
Carrying a stick sharpened into a makeshift spear, Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle,
but it evades him.
Irritated, he walks back to the beach, where he finds Ralph and Simon at.
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