Quarter 4 - 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. At first, the children voted for him to be their leader/chief. He used to be respected by all, but he ends up alone after Piggy and Simon's death.

• 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

Ralph and Piggy go to where Jack and his tribe are.

They eat meat there, and even get envolved and excited about the dancing and singing with Jack's boys.

The "beast" appears, and they torture and kill "it".

The "beast" was actually Simon, who was going to tell them that there was no monster - it was only a dead man.

Ralph and Piggy feel embarassed because of their act.

Jack's tribe goes to where Ralph is and steal Piggy's glasses. Now they don't have ways to make the fire going.

Ralph, Piggy and the twins go again to where Jack is to try to tell him that the fire is essencial.

Roger throws something at Piggy, killing him.

Jack forces the twins to stay with him, and now he wants to hunt Ralph.

Ralph run away until a officer comes and talk to him.

The officer rescue all of them.

* Statement of Themes
"Lord of The Flies" is about survival, control, teamwork, darkness, and civilization. Also, we can 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.