Supplementary Task V

An important part in these chapters were when the fighter pilot was hanging from the tree by his parachute, which scared the boys. We found the situation very sad and weird. Especially when the kids are the only ones on the island. This probably means that there was war going on and the whole reason why the boys are stranded on the island is because their plane got shot down. There is a lot of tribal dancing and the boys are starting to lose their civilized manner and are being more and more like animals or beasts. The dances are not only to raise the morale of the group more starting to become more like a dress rehearsal for the real thing, such as hitting the boy that is acting as the pig. The groups conflict escalated to a point where Jack started his own tribe and most of the older boys left with him leaving Ralph alone with Simon and Piggy. When Simon goes sit next to the pig mother's head he starts to have imaginations about the pig talking. The Lord Of The Flies states that if he were to tell the boys that the beast doesn't exist, then he will only be killed by Jack, but Ralph and Piggy too. After hearing all this he goes unconscious.