Second Quarter - 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.

* Synopsis

• Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle, but it ends up scaping.
• Ralph works on building huts for the younger boys to live in. The only kid that is helping him is Simon, the other boys only want to play.
• Ralph gets realy irritated because of many problems they are having at this point, such as: The kids get excited by the plans they make at meetings, but they are not working on get them done; The smaller boys can't sleep because of the nightmares.
• Jack only cares about hunting a pig and don't give attention on Ralph's concerns.
• Ralph and Jack end up having an arguement.
• Simon goes for a walk by himself, helps the "littluns", and then he finds a beautiful and quiet place, where he stays a while.
• The "littluns" are concerned about the beastie, and fear it.
• Roger and Maurice torment some of the "littluns" by stomping on the sand castle they had build and by throwing stones at the boys.
• Jack pints his face and goes with other boys to hunt a pig. However, he should be taking care of the fire.
• Ralph and Piggy see a ship. But as there is no fire, the ship is not able to see signs of life on the island and goes away.
• Jack and the hunters come back carrying a dead pig.
• Ralph and Piggy tell the hunters they are irresponsible.
• Jack slaps Piggy, breaking one of the lenses of his glasses. He never apologizes.
• They all eat the pig by the fire.
• Ralph calls for a meeting to put the group back into line.
• At the meeting, Ralph talks about the disorganization of the kids. And he talks about the beastie.
• One of the littluns tells that he has actually seen a beast.
• The meeting plunges into chaos.
• Ralph tells to Piggy and Simon that he wants to relinquish leadership of the group.
• Piggy tells him that the group needs him.

* 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, they are not listening very much to their chief (Ralph), bringing some kind of tension 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.