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    1) Samneric are on fire duty but fall asleep, waking to see a dead pilot that had crashed in the night. They believe it is the beast. 2) Ralph calls a meeting where Jack questions Ralph's leadership and the importance of the conch. Ralph is able to maintain authority by appealing to being rescued. 3) The boys search the island and find a rocky outcrop called the "castle," which Jack wants to claim as a fort, while Ralph insists they continue searching for the beast.

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    1) Samneric are on fire duty but fall asleep, waking to see a dead pilot that had crashed in the night. They believe it is the beast. 2) Ralph calls a meeting where Jack questions Ralph's leadership and the importance of the conch. Ralph is able to maintain authority by appealing to being rescued. 3) The boys search the island and find a rocky outcrop called the "castle," which Jack wants to claim as a fort, while Ralph insists they continue searching for the beast.

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    1) Samneric are on fire duty but fall asleep, waking to see a dead pilot that had crashed in the night. They believe it is the beast. 2) Ralph calls a meeting where Jack questions Ralph's leadership and the importance of the conch. Ralph is able to maintain authority by appealing to being rescued. 3) The boys search the island and find a rocky outcrop called the "castle," which Jack wants to claim as a fort, while Ralph insists they continue searching for the beast.

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    Previous Lord of the Flies: Chapter 6


    Chapter 5
    Summary & Analysis

    Themes and Colors Key      !

    Summary Analysis

    That night, airplanes battle in the night A sign from the adult world arrives. But
    sky, high and far enough away that none it's a dead soldier, signalling that adult
    of the boys wake. A dead pilot from one "civilization" also hides savagery
    of the destroyed planes drifts down on a within.
    parachute and lands on the mountain top
    ACTIVE THEMES
    next to the signal fire.

    Samneric are on fire duty on the The sign from the adult world is the
    mountain top, but they are asleep. When beast. The beast has put out the signal
    they wake in the early morning before fire, which is the boys' last link to
    dawn, they see the dead pilot in the civilization.
    shadows. It sits up and falls down when
    ACTIVE THEMES
    the wind catches the parachute, which
    they think are wings. They run to the 
    beach in terror to tell the others that the
    beast chased them down the mountain.

    Ralph calls a meeting that quickly The beast makes the boys crave a
    becomes heated. Jack questions Ralph's strong leader, giving Jack more weight.
    decisions and leadership, mocks Piggy, At the same time, most of the boys still
    and claims the conch no longer matters. favor rescue and civilization over
    For an instant it seems as if Jack might savagery.
    take over leadership of the boys, but
    ACTIVE THEMES
    Ralph turns the tables and wins everyone
    to his side by asking if they want to be 
    rescued or not.

    Ralph and the biguns agree to search the Jack follows Ralph to appear strong
    island. Piggy stays behind to look after and undaunted in the eyes of other
    the littleuns. At the far tip of the island, boys. He can't allow Ralph to upstage
    the biguns find a rock formation Jack calls him and thereby appear to be the more
    the "castle." The rock is accessible only courageous and deserving leader.
    by a piece of stone forty feet above the
    ACTIVE THEMES
    water below. They think it might be the
    beast's hideout. Ralph, as the leader, 
    volunteers to search it. Jack follows
    behind him.

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    The boys find no beast, but Jack is In Chapter 1, the boys move a boulder
    excited because the rock protects a cave in fellowship. Now Jack is excited to use
    and would make a terrific fort. It even has boulders to kill.
    boulders, which, if pushed in the right
    ACTIVE THEMES
    way, could roll down to crush
    approaching enemies. 
    Jack and the other biguns want to stay The other boys want to "have fun,"
    and play at the fort, but Ralph says they Ralph wants to rebuild civilization in
    have to go search the mountain for the the form of the signal fire.
    beast and relight the signal fire.
    ACTIVE THEMES

    

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