Chapter Summaries Flashcards
Chapter 1
Schoolboys have crash landed on a desert island. The reader meets Ralph and Piggy. Piggy has asthma. They find a conch and use it to summon the other survivors including the twins Samneric, Jack and Simon.
Chapter 2
The boys focus on short term pleasure and fun. Ralph suggests building a fire to be rescued. Jack just wants to hunt. A boy with a birthmark tells of the ‘beast’. He goes missing after the fire and the boys are ashamed.
Chapter 3
Ralph wants to build shelters but only Simon helps while others play and Jack hunts. The fire has been allowed to go out. Simon slips away to meditate.
Chapter 4
Island life gets a rhythm. Mornings are pleasant because it is cool, but evening is not because people worry about the beast. A boat goes past but there is no fire to attract it. Jack paints his face and hunts and kills a pig chanting ‘Kill the Pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.’
Chapter 5
Ralph calls a meeting to get people to follow the rules, but he and Jack are more apart than ever. There is talk of the beast, a little un suggesting it comes from the ocean at night. Jack just wants to hunt and won’t listen to the rules of the conch. Ralph wishes for adults.
Chapter 6
A dead parachutist floats onto the island. No one sees because the fire is out. When they awake, Samneric light the fire and see him but they think it is a beast. Jack finds a rock and some boulders.
Chapter 7
Jack and Ralph continue to clash as they search for the beast. Ralph kills a boar and is flushed with excitement. Robert is almost killed in the reenactment. Later they head up the mountain and see the beast and are terrified.
Chapter 8
Jack declares himself chief of his own group. Simon meditates and leans what the beast is. Piggy tries to cheer Ralph up with talk of a new fire. The savages dance around as they kill a sow with Roger being very brutal.
Chapter 9
A storm comes and they have no shelter. Simon emerges from the forest and is killed by the other boys who think he is the beast. Ralph acts like a king.
Chapter 10
Jack’s gang have moved to Castle Rock. Ralph, Piggy and Samneric remain but can’t keep the fire going alone. Jack steals Piggy’s glasses whilst the others protect the conch.
Chapter 11
The boys go to Castle Rock to confront Jack. Piggy is killed by a boulder pushed by Roger. Jack attempts to kill Ralph with a spear. Jack’s group torture Samneric to join them.
Chapter 12
Samneric are tortured into revealing Ralph’s hiding place. Jack vows to burn down the forest to find them. The smoke attracts a boat. The officer finds the boys and asks if they are playing at war. All of the boys cry whilst the officer looks back at his ship.
