This sends Ralph into a fury, and he lunges at Jack. Ralph and Jack fight for a second time. Piggy cries out shrilly, struggling to make himself heard over the brawl. As Piggy tries to speak, hoping to remind the group of the importance of rules and rescue, Roger shoves a massive rock down the mountainside. Ralph, who hears the rock falling, dives and dodges it. But the boulder strikes Piggy, shatters the conch shell he is holding, and knocks him off the mountainside to his death on the rocks below.
Jack throws his spear at Ralph, and the other boys quickly join in. Roger, the character least able to understand the civilizing impulse, crushes the conch shell as he looses the boulder and kills Piggy, the character least able to understand the savage impulse. As we see in the next chapter, Ralph, the boy most closely associated with civilization and order, destroys the Lord of the Flies, the governing totem of the dark impulses within each individual.
Ironically, although hunting is necessary to the survival of the group—there is little other food on the island aside from fruit, which has made many of the boys sick—it is also what drives them into deadly barbarism.
From the beginning of the novel, the hunters have been the ones who have pioneered the way into the realm of savagery and violence.
Furthermore, the conflict between Ralph and Jack has often manifested itself as the conflict between the interests of the hunters and the interests of the rest of the group. Now that Jack and the forces of savagery have risen to unchallenged prominence on the island, the hunt has thoroughly won out over the more peaceful civilizing instinct. Rather than successfully mitigate the power of the hunt with the rules and structures of civilization, Ralph becomes a victim of the savage forces the hunt represents—he has literally become the prey.
There are no adults on the island. The boys must survive on their own. The boys create their own society while they are waiting to be rescued. Ralph-is athletic and charismatic. He is 12 years old. He finds a conch shell and calls all the boys to meeting. Ralph is "good" he believes in the rules of society and working hard, but Ralph follows the rules because he enjoys the rewards of good behavior and wants to avoid the consequences of breaking the rules.
Jack-is the leader of the choirboys. Jack is also attractive and athletic. He loses the election for group leader in chapter 1 to Ralph, which upsets him greatly. Jack is the opposite of Ralph. He is interested in power and violence. Jack offers to lead the hunters when he loses the election. Jack has a knife. Simon-is naturally good. He is younger than Ralph and Jack, but older than the "littleuns". He truly believes in being good and that people are good. He follows the rules because he believes in the rules and he believes in the best of people.
Piggy-is short and overweight. He wears glasses and has asthma. Piggy is probably the most intelligent boy, but he has poor social skills. Piggy is upset that the boys tease him. He tries to avoid hard work but thinks it is very important to have rules and follow the rules. Piggy's glasses are used by the boys to start fires. Sam and Eric-Young identical twins who are always together. They do everything together and are actually incapable of doing anything alone.
It is hard to tell them apart and because they are always together they are called Samneric. We can't have everybody talking at once. We'll have to have to 'Hands Up' like at school Then I'll give him the conch I'll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he's speaking And he won't be interrupted.
Except by me" The boys try to get organized, make rules, decide who will be in charge of the fire, being a look-out, hunters, gathering wood, etc. Jack and Simon have been building huts on the beach. Jack has been focused on hunting. Conflict is beginning to build between them. Jack is only concerned with hunting, and cannot see the necessity of other things that can keep them alive. I went on.. I had to go on The madness came into his eyes again.
I thought I might kill" You remember the meeting? How everyone was going to work hard unti the shelters were finished They're off bathing, or eating, or playing" Just a feeling.
But you can feel as if you're not hunting, but --being hunted, as if something's behind you all the time in the jungle" Ralph and Jack are really beginning to fight in this chapter, and it foreshadows much more future conflicts down the line. Simon has been helping the littuns pick fruit.
He has helped Ralph build th shelters. Simon goes off into the jungle he enjoys the tranquility of this spot, where he can be in touch with nature. Simon's actions present him as a very good, peaceful and helpful character, in contrast with many others. At the beginning of Chapter 4 Roger is knocking down sand castles that the "littluns" have built and throwing stones near the young children, but he is NOT hitting them with stones.
Here, invisible yet strong, ws the taboo of the old life" Jack is obsessed with killing a pig and asks Roger to help him camoflauge his face.
Jack compares the face paint to war paint. On the beach, Ralph and the other boys are swimming when they spot smoke from a passing ship on the horizon. The boys realize their signal fire was not being watched and the fire has gone out. They rush to the mountain to try to start the fire again. They let the bloody fire go out Ralph clenched his fist and went very red. The intentness of his gaze, the bitterness of his voice" Jack, Roger and other boys from the choir group proudly march back to the mountain yelling, chanting and carrying the first pig they have killed.
They are excited and want to celebrate. Ralph is angry because the boys let the fire go out and they have missed perhaps their only chance of being rescued. Ralph and Jack fight. Ralph thinks that "keeping the fire going" is the most important job, while Jack thinks hunting for meat is more important. During the fight Jack punches Piggy and his glasses are knocked to the ground. One of the lenses is broken. Jack and the hunters dance and celebrate their first kill.
This dance will be performed many times during the novel. As they danced, they sang. Cut her throat. Bash her in'" Ralph is very upset and angry that the fire was allowed to go out and the boys missed a chance to be saved. He calls another meeting to convince they boys to follow the rules and work.
Everybody enjoys speaking and being together. We decide things. But they don't get done" Most of the boys would rather just eat, sleep, swim and play.
They are not being responsible. Truthfully, the littluns are too young to be much help. At the meeting, Ralph takes the conch shell, refuses to give it to any other boy so that he can speak. So it was, for a few days.
Now there's no water. The shells are dry. Peole drinkd for the river" Clamor rose at once. Everyone had built the shelters I mean who built all three? We all built the first one, four of us the second one, and me'n simon built the last one over there. That shelter might fall down if the rain comes back. We'll need those shelters then" We choose those rocks right along beyond the bathing pool as a lavatory. The tide cleans the place up Now people seem to use anywher.
Even near the shelters and platform That's really dirty We've all got to use the rocks again. This place is getting dirty" Can't you see we ought to--ought to die before we let the fire out You hunters. You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important that the pig, however ofther you kill one We've got to make smoke up there--or die" And we waste time, rolling rocks, and making little cooking fires.
Now I say this and make it a rule, because I'm chief. We won't have fire anywhere but on the mountain. One thing that convinces most of the boys that a beast exist is the disappearance of the young boy with a birthmark the first day on the island. They all saw the young boy with the birthmark, but he has not been seen since the day they built the first fire that got out of control. The boy most likely died in the fire, but the boys still think "the beast" got him.
Simon admits that he sometimes walks in the jungle at night and that is what the boys hear in the jungle. Jack and Ralph continue to fight and disagree. Jack doesn't care about a "lawful world" or "the rules". We're strong--we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll clost in and beat and beat and beat! He gave a wild whoop and leapt down to the pale sand. At once theplatform was full of noise and excitement, scramblings, screams and laughter" Ralph no longers wants to be the chief.
He wants to quit. Simon and Piggy convince he must be the chief or Jack will take over. Simon is the only one to realize that there really isn't any "beast," but just a force of evil or savagery inside all of the boys. The evil is different in each boy. During the night while all the boys are asleep, a dead fighter pilot parachutes down from the sky to the island. None of the boys see this. We've got to make certain [that there is no beast] There's no signal showing [on the mountain].
There may be a ship out there'" As the boys make their way to the mountain, Ralph dreams about taking a shower, getting a haircut and being clean. Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife.
Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close. The chant rose ritually, as at the last moment of a dance or a hunt" The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering" As the boys once again hike towards the mountain, Simon volunteers to cut the the jungle to tell Piggy they will return after dark.
Several of the boys climb the mountain and their fear and imagination causes them to see the BEAST actually the dead fighter pilot. The boys have run back to the beach and tell Piggy that there is a BEAST up on the mountain and they will have to abandon the signal fire. Jack uses the conch to call an assembly.
Jack wants to hunt the beast and he challenges Ralph as chief. He's like Piggy. He says things like Piggy. He isn't a proper chief He's not a nunter. He'd never have got us meat. He isn't a prefect He just gives orders and expects people to obey for nothing. All this talk Who thinks Ralph oughtn't to be chief" I'm going off by myself. He can catch his own pigs. Anyone who wants to hunt when I do can come too" While Ralph is worried that Jack has left and wants to his own tribe, Piggy is relieved and thinks they can do without Jack.
Piggy has a sensible idea to build a signal fire on the beach. As Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Sam and Eric build a new fire they realize all of the other older boys have left to join Jack. Jack plans a raid on Ralph's camp to get the one thing that they don't possess: Piggy's glasses. The reason that they don't "ask" as Ralph later yells at Jack , is because Jack and his tribe are too far gone into the lifestyle of savagery.
They no longer possess any civilized qualities. Who killed Piggy? Why does Simon want to climb the mountain? Simon wants to climb the mountain to find the beast. He has a hallucinatory conversation with the pig's head, in which it tells him it is Satan's minion, "the lord of the flies.
How does Simon die? Simon dies after his conversation with the Lord of the Flies, when he finds out the beast is inside all the boys. Excited by their hunt, the other boys kill Simon as he tries to explain his finding. The other boy who dies on the island is the boy with the mulberry birthmark. What does Jack say when he leaves the group? Enraged, Jack storms away from the group, saying that he is leaving and that anyone who likes is welcome to join him.
Why Ralph is not a good leader? Ralph is not really a bad leader. In fact, he's a natural. But he is inexperienced and has the disadvantage of being a child trying to lead other children.
One could argue that since he loses most of the boys to Jack's camp, he is the inferior leader. Who is responsible for Simon's death in Lord of the Flies?
Ralph is shocked by the role all the boys play in killing Simon. At the beginning of chapter 10, he is ridden with guilt and tells Piggy that it was murder. How does Piggy feel about Jack leaving the group?
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