LORD OF THE FLIES BOOK REPORT

Ella Hernandez

Lord of the Flies book report

HEADER QUESTIONS:

1. WILLIAM GOLDING Lord of the Flies

2. 225 pages

3. The setting takes place on a tropical island. It has a jungle at one end, with a rocky mountain above it. At the opposite side is the lagoon, where the boys go to bathe and where they first met after the crash. Near there, up the mountain, is a platform where it was decided a fire would stay lit in hope of rescue.

1. The story took place on . A and it that there were no adult survivors. Two older boys – fair-haired and athletic Ralph and an overweight and clumsy, bespectacled boy "Piggy", a nickname he hates and confided to Ralph his school mates called him were on a isolated getting acquainted. Ralph told Piggy his father would rescue them when he found out that their plane was missing, but Piggy rejected that possibility by saying: “Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They’re all dead.” As they began to become aware of their new surroundings, Piggy continually urged Ralph to go with him to look for other survivors. Ralph went swimming in a lagoon, found a white shell about 18 inches long and Piggy had suggested that Ralph used the conch as a to call for any other survivors who would’ve been on the . Told Ralph that blowing into it would make a sound loud enough to be heard a long way off. All of the survivors were male children, none over the age of thirteen: "biguns" (a few older boys) and "littluns" (several younger boys). Ralph, initiated the island's first assembly.

The conflict towards (live by rules, in peace), and towards the . A bony, freckled redhead boy Jack, had became a threat to Ralph's leadership. Jack was envious of Ralph being the chief. Ralph became the chief because he had found the . Jack empowered himself by becoming an undisputed leader of the hunters. Jack and the hunters (Jack's tribe) became more animalistic, by applying from coloured clay discovered by Sam and Eric. To Ralph, these painted faces represent the hunters' masking their more civilised selves to let out their inner "savages." Sam and Eric were identical ...

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The conflict towards (live by rules, in peace), and towards the . A bony, freckled redhead boy Jack, had became a threat to Ralph's leadership. Jack was envious of Ralph being the chief. Ralph became the chief because he had found the . Jack empowered himself by becoming an undisputed leader of the hunters. Jack and the hunters (Jack's tribe) became more animalistic, by applying from coloured clay discovered by Sam and Eric. To Ralph, these painted faces represent the hunters' masking their more civilised selves to let out their inner "savages." Sam and Eric were identical twins and often referred as "Samneric". Jack’s tribe focused on hunting. Have killed their first pig, they gain members from Ralph's group by promising them , fun, and protection from the beast. Jack invited everyone to join him and his boys at his site for food and fun. Sam and Eric attended they thought it would be fun and they would enjoy the meat. Some of Ralph’s boys had left him for Jack. Part of Ralph's tribe was Simon, he found the head of the hunters'. It was dead pig on a stick, he left it as an offering to the beast. Simon had gone through an , he saw the pigs head, swarming with scavenging flies as the ",". Simon believed that the pigs head was talking to him, it had identified itself as being the real "Beast,". It told him “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you? Close, close, close!” Meaning that they had created the beast, and that the real beast was inside him and inside them all.

The climax took place at Jack’s site during the feast. Jack told his boys do their dance. They formed their own circle; they dance and chanted, “Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!” The Little ones formed their own circle, saw a shadowy figure and said is the beast. The dancers were upon him, poking him with sticks, clawing him, biting him, and tearing him apart. He was Simon that walked out of the forest, who had died. Piggy, Sam, and Eric were the only ones left in Ralph’s group. All the rest had gone over to Jack. The next night Ralph and Jack fought, Piggy held up the conch and demanded to speak and break things up. Jack and his boys launched an attack from above; they pushed a rock from a precipice. It stroked Piggy and killed him. Jack his tribe were looking for Ralph, with intentions to kill him. Ralph had believed Sam and Eric were still loyal to him and told them where he would be hiding. The twins were forced to betray Ralph told Jack’s tribe and the savages tore apart the island to find Ralph.

The ending of this novel had taken place near where Ralph was lying when a navy officer landed on the island. A fire so large started by Jack had attracted the attention of a nearby warship.The officer had expected better from British boys, believing them only to be playing a game.

Jack’s authoritarian leadership style had been very evil. He had named his tribe the hunters and considered him self to be a worrior. He enjoyed fighting with Ralph/Ralph’s group, and killing animals. Ralph’s democratic leadership style was the opposite from Jack’s. Ralph was kind to all the children in his group, and his intentions were to survive and be rescued.

Piggy was a very close friend of Ralph. Piggy was a lost of intelligence when he died. Piggy was very smart, he thought out things thoroughly. Simon was also friend of Ralph. Simon had contributed a role of intuition. He had the ability of having quick insight.

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