Summary Of Lord Of The Flies

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older boys as
"bigguns" although the younger children are referred to more collectively
in the story. Ralph is elected chief of the group and his first action is
for Jack, Simon and himself to go on a scout to check if the island is
really and island or is attached to anything else, they find that it is an
island and return to the rest of the boys.

It is decided at the meeting held by Ralph that people should only be
allowed to speak at meetings if they have possession of the conch, thus
giving the conch a special power to the boys. It is also decided that the
choir should become hunters for food, with Jack (the choir leader) in
charge of them. Above all this though is the importance of a fire being
lit and staying alight night and day for a ship to see and hopefully rescue
them.

At this point a small boy comes forward and tells the boys that he saw a
monster which he calls a "beastie" in the woods. This is met with mockery
and a little uncertainty from the other boys, and ...

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fears tells them that
it was him in the forest that the boy saw. Simon also puts forward the
thought that "Maybe it's really only us" but because of his shyness cannot
really formulate the idea. Jack says that if there is a beast his hunters
will hunt it down, but the boys have little faith in this proposition.

Sam and Eric go to the mountain and believe they saw the beast, describing
him in rather incongruent terms though they convey the general fear.
Increasingly the boys believe in the beast although Simon still refuses to
believe that such a thing could exist.

Ralph goes hunting with the others and decides that it is a bit of fun
after all. But unfortunately it gets dark before ...

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