Quarter 3 - Lord Of The Flies

* Characters

• Ralph - He seems to be the main character. He is older then most of the kids, and he has an attractive appearance. The children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He is respect by all.
• Piggy - He seems to be some kind of assistant. He is fat and has freckles. He doesn't like to be called Fatty. He is very smart, but suffers some kind of bullying. He is hated by Jack.
• Jack - He is bossy and gross. He wants to be the chief of the kids. Until now, he is just the hunting leader. He wants to do thing on his own way. He is kind of a second boss for the children. He is starting to be more evil and rude than he was before.
• Simon - He is a skinny, straight hair little boy. He is very kind and helpful.
• Sam and Eric - Twins; survivors. They are always together, and the other boys treat them as a single person.
• Roger and Maurice - Jack's "allies". They are as evil, gross and rude as Jack.
• Robert - He plays the part of an animal, and the boys pretend to hunt him.

* Synopsis

• The twins, who were supposed to watch the signal fire, fall asleep.
• When they wake up, they see "the beast".
• After they tell to Ralph what they saw, Ralph decides on a meeting that they are going on a expedition to find the beast.
• Only Piggy and the littluns stay.
• Jack is commanding the expedition. They go to the only place in the island that Jack (and everyone else) has never been before.
• They find a cave, but only Ralph and Jack explore it.
• The other boys start to play and have fun, forgeting the reason of the expedition.
• Ralph gets angry, and tell them that they need to return to the other montain to rebuild the fire.
• Jack wants to hunt a pig while they continue to search for the beast.
• The boys agree. They track a boar. Even Ralph is excited about it.
• Ralph flings his spear at the boar and hits it. He gets so happy about it, but Jack says that the boar was already bleeding before Ralph hits it.
• The boar runs away, but the boys continue excited about hunting.
• They start to play a game, where Robert is the animal that they will hunt.
• The kids start to forget that it is just a game and begin to hurt Robert for real, who tries to get away from them.
• They stop and Jack says that on the next time, they could use a littlun istead of Robert.
• The kids laugh. Ralph remind them that it was just a game.
• Simon volunters to go back and tell Piggy that they won't return that soon.
• They decide to continue searching for the beast only in the morning, when it won't be dark anymore.
• Jack, Ralph and Roger goes for a hunt climbing the montain.
• Jack goes to the top of the montain alone, and goes back saying that he saw a monster.
• Ralph and Roger go check. They then see a large specter with the shape of a giant ape, making a horrible sound.
• They get horrifield and go back to tell the other boys.
• The next morning, everyone gets together on the beach. They are all terrifield because of the beast.
• Jack says that Ralph is a coward and sugests that he cannot be the chief anymore. The kids don't agree.
• Jack gets angry and leaves saying that whoever wants to join him, is welcome. Some kids follow him.
• Ralph is confused and don't know what to do. Simon suggests that they go back to the montain and search for the beast, but most of the kids are afraid.
• They make another fire, this time on the beach.
• Many of the boys leaves at night to join Jack's group.
• Piggy says to Ralph that they are better without that kids.
• In another part of the beach, Jack says to the boys who followed him that he is the chief. They kill a sow and put its head as an offer to the beast. They get scary with the dark blood of it and run away.
• While Ralph and Piggy are chatting, Jack and the hunters come and start to destroy, and steal things from Ralph's group.
• Simon goes to that beautiful place he has been before. But now, instead of the beauty, he finds the sow’s head, and gets mesmerized by it.
• The head talks to him in the voice of "Lord Of The Flies", telling him that he would never scape and that they would have some fun.
• Simon faints.

* Statement of Themes

So far "Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control, teamwork and civilization. Also, we can start to note some darkness in the story because of the conflicts that are happening. The kids are trying to find out how they will live while they are waiting for rescue. At first, they thought that the best way to make it is having a leader and listening to his plans. But, at this point, tension and death are added sorely to the story.

* Setting

The story takes place in a desert island while it is happening the World War 2.There are no civilization and no grown-ups, which forces the kids to find a way to find food, get organized and figure out a way to survive on that island all by theirself.

* Point of View

 

The story is told in 3rd person omniscient point of view. It makes the story easier to understand, because it is shown everything that is happening from a general point of view. If it was told in 1st person, we would be reading just the point of view of the character.

 

* Notables about the writer's style

 

The author writes the story in a realistic way. He doesn't appearr interesting in brings comedy and fun to the story. He is very serious.