Soon, more follow until only a few, including Piggy, are left with Ralph.Įvents reach a crisis when Simon finds a sow's head impaled on a stick, left by Jack as an offering to the beast. The next day, Jack, obsessed with this imagined threat, leaves the group to start a new tribe, one without rules, where the boys play and hunt all day. Ralph, Jack, and another boy named Roger continue on to the top of the mountain and see something move. All the boys except Piggy and the littluns go searching for it. The next day, twins Sam and Eric see something land on the mountain, and they tell the boys it's another beast. Soon some of the boys begin to talk of a beast that comes from the water. Piggy chastises Jack, and Jack strikes him in retaliation, knocking his glasses off, and breaking one lens. Meanwhile, the fire, for which he and his "hunters" are responsible, goes out, losing the boys' chance of being spotted from a passing aeroplane. With no rescue in sight, the increasingly authoritarian and violence-prone Jack starts hunting and eventually finds a pig. The boys build shelters and start a signal fire using Piggy's spectacles. The boys have another assembly where Ralph tells the boys to make a fire. Ralph, Jack, and a choir boy named Simon go off to explore, and find out they are indeed on a deserted island. The choir boys make wooden spears, creating the appearance that they are warriors within the group.
Initially, Ralph is able to steer the boys (all of whom are aged between about six and fourteen) towards a reasonably civilised and co-operative society. Singing is then heard and a small column of school choir boys, wearing dark cloaks and hats and led by a boy named Jack Merridew, walk towards Ralph and Piggy. As they emerge from the jungle, it becomes clear that no adults have escaped the crash. The two go to the beach where they find a conch shell, which Ralph blows to rally the other survivors. He meets a chubby, bespectacled, intelligent boy who reveals his school nickname was Piggy, but asks that Ralph not repeat that. The main character, Ralph, is seen walking through a tropical forest.
Their aircraft is shot down by briefly-glimpsed fighter planes and ditches near a remote island. A group of schoolboys are evacuated from England following the outbreak of an unidentified war.
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