Lord Of The Flies
...no adult survivors. Two English boys, named Ralph and Piggy form an initial focus, as they begin to make sense of their surroundings. The boys soon find a conch shell and Piggy suggests that Ralph uses the conch as a horn to call for any other survivors who might be nearby. The boys include "biguns" (several older children) and "littluns" (younger children), and rapidly divide into two camps headed by Ralph, and another older boy named Jack (the head of a choir group that also landed on the island). Ralph is voted in charge and calls everyone together to work toward two common goals, the first being to have fun and the second to be rescued by creating a constant fire signal, to be lit using Piggy's glasses.
For a time the boys work together towards building shelters, gathering food and water, and keeping the fire going. The one goal which constantly gets sidelined is keeping the signal fire going as some of the boys, the hunters, led by Jack; focus their energy on hunting the wild pigs on the island. The children's belief in a beast on the island also creates a problem. The children begin to split into two groups, based on the existence of the beast. Ralph attempts to disprove the existence of the beast while Jack exploits the belief in the beast to encourage his group of hunters.
Jack soon forms a separate tribe from Ralph's. Jack gains defectors from Ralph's tribe by promising them meat, fun, and, most importantly, protection from the beast. Jack's tribe gradually becomes more savage and they use face paint and focus mainly on hunting, while Ralph's group focuses on keeping the fire going and getting rescued. Simon, a part of Ralph's tribe, sets off on a mission to investigate the mountain. While on his way there, he finds the pig's head on a stick Jack put there earlier, and begins to hallucinate. He sees the head as "The Lord of the Flies," and believes that...
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