“Lord of the Flies”
3rd
quarter
(Chapter 7 – Chapter 9)
“It
had teeth and big black eyes” –Ralph.
Synopsis
The kids continued their search for the beast leaving Piggy and the littluns back at the beach. Ralph begins thinking and feeling homesickness. He imagined to himself how things were before they came to the island. We can see that he really misses his old life. A boar is soon spotted by the kids and they pursued it, but unfortunately it escapes. In frustration of the boar getting away, the kids make Robert the “pig” and start pulling and grabbing at him. Later on, Simon offers himself to go back to the beach to check out how Piggy was doing. As night comes the boys get afraid. Only Ralph, Roger and Jack continued to the mountain and see the beast.
The kids continued their search for the beast leaving Piggy and the littluns back at the beach. Ralph begins thinking and feeling homesickness. He imagined to himself how things were before they came to the island. We can see that he really misses his old life. A boar is soon spotted by the kids and they pursued it, but unfortunately it escapes. In frustration of the boar getting away, the kids make Robert the “pig” and start pulling and grabbing at him. Later on, Simon offers himself to go back to the beach to check out how Piggy was doing. As night comes the boys get afraid. Only Ralph, Roger and Jack continued to the mountain and see the beast.
Ralph and his group
returns to the beach. Ralph tells Piggy about the beast and how big and
ferocious it was “it had teeth and big black eyes”. The tension between Ralph
and Jack increases and Ralph calls his hunters “boys with sticks” so Jack gets
mad and creates a revolt to remove Ralph from being the chief. No one
supports Jack so he decides to leave the group and instead invites everyone to join him to
his new society. Roger, Bill, Maurice and others follow Jack after a moment.
Ralph, feeling like he is losing the group’s control, asks Piggy for advice. Piggy suggests the idea of making fire down the beach so like that they don’t have to
confront the beast. Meanwhile, Jack and his hunters slay a sow and Jack put
its head on a stick and jam it in the ground as a “gift for the beast”. Jack
invites Ralph and his group to attend to his party to eat meat. Meanwhile, Simon
sits down near the decapitated sow and waits for the beast to come out. While
waiting, the flies that were surrounding the sow’s head start surrounding him
too. Then suddenly the head starts talking to him. He confronts the Lord of
the Flies. Meanwhile at the beach after eating some meat, Ralph tries to call an
assembly with the conch, even though he is mocked and laughed at. It starts raining
and Jack starts a dancing ritual with the boys. They start singing “kill the
beast!”, “spill his blood!”, “cut his throat!”
Even Ralph and Piggy had joined them; the kids had lost all civilized
manners. Simon suddenly appears and tries to explain to the boys that there is no
beast. However, the boys mistaken him for the beast and end up killing him.
Characters Introduced
There are no new
characters introduced this time.
Point of view
The narrator
speaks in third person. This kind of narrator is omniscient (seeing and knowing
everything) and gives us access to the deep thoughts of the characters. This
gives the reader a better perspective of what is going on in the novel.
Setting
The setting of the
story is a deserted island with no adults and no civilization.
Writer's style
William Golding
uses symbolism, though not so many metaphors, compares this situation to
civilization's problems of that time (1940 – 1950) and looks within human
natural behavior.
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