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10 grade group C

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William Golding

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The book begins with a 12 year old boy with fair hair called Ralph. Ralph meets a fat boy that is shorter than him and wears glasses, he has asthma and lived with his auntie. They are on a deserted island because his plane crashed.

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The name of the fat boy is piggy, he tells Ralph not to say his name to others. Ralph thinks that his dad is going to rescue him, but Piggy tells him that no one knows where they are and there was also an atomic bomb.

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They find a deep cream colored shell and piggy has the idea of using it to call the other kids. Ralph blow the shell and many children begin to appear, they decided to vote in order to choose the chief, Ralph wins the votes.

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Ralph accidentally say Piggy´s name because Jack was calling him fat, so Ralph wanted to defend him. All the kids started teasing Piggy, so he felt humiliated by Ralph because he said his name to the other boys.

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Ralph, Jack and Simon go to explore the place, they see that there are no adults on the island. The boys find a pig and Jack is going to kill it to have food but he couldn't and the pig escaped.

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Ralph tells the others that it is a desert island without civilization, but there is food and water that help them survive while someone comes to rescue them. He also proposes a new rule: whoever that had the shell could speak.

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A little boy tells them that he saw a beastie in the dark, referring to a snake-thing. Everyone starts laughing and nobody believes him, they say that those things are not there, if they found one they would make sure of hunt it and kill it.

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Piggy tells them that nobody knows where they are. Ralph proposes make a fire at the top of the mountain in order to make a signal with the smoke, so that any passing ships might see it and know that someone is trapped on the island. All the boys ran un the mountain

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The kids collect wood, then they use Piggy's glasses and sunlight to make a fire, but it didn't go as planned and there's no smoke. The group of hunters say they are in charge of keeping the fire signal on. Piggy has the shell but no one lets him speak.

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Piggy loses his patience and tells them that he also has the right to speak. He complained to them for his disorganization and for not putting the first things first. He proposes that they should first build a shelter, then he tells the others that a little boy is missing.

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Jack finds himself in the jungle trying to hunt a pig with a sharp stick about five feet long. The pig escapes and this irritates Jack, so he returns to the beach and finds Ralph.

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Ralph is irritated because the huts keep falling down before they are completed and only Simon helps him build them. Ralph says that when he has a meeting the littluns act excited and energized and after a few minutes they leave, they only care about eating, bathing and sleeping.

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Ralph worries about the smaller children, many of them have nightmares and are unable to sleep. Jack confesses that sometimes when he goes hunting he feels like he is going to be hunted. They start talking about the smoke and that the hunters should take care of it.

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Ralph begins to say that Jack is not helping to build the huts either, Ralph assures that he only uses the pretext of going hunting to avoid the real work. Jack tells him that they all want meat, they continue arguing.

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Simon decides to go for a walk alone in the jungle, he meets some small children who want a fruit and he helps them to reach it. He just look around to make sure he is alone, then he finds a very nice and relaxing place with lots of flowers.

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The children are adapting to live on the island. The mornings are cool and in the afternoons it is very hot which makes them fatigued. Strange things happened at midday, Piggy discounted this as a mirage.

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The littluns have diarrhea because they eat a lot of fruit. They remain separated from the elders and only coexist in the meetings. Roger and Maurice destroy the sand castles that the littluns were building. Afterwards Henry is fascinated by seeing some creatures in the water.

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Jack believes that the animals can see him so he looks for a way to camouflage himself. He decides to use a new technique to hunt: painting his face with charcoal and clay. Piggy thinks about building a sundial so they can better organize their days, but Ralph rejects his idea.

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Ralph sees a ship on the horizon and thinks it is going to rescue them, but Simon realizes that the smoke signal has gone. They run to start the fire but it's too late, Ralph gets mad because it was the hunters' responsibility to keep up the smoke signal.

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The hunters return very happy with a dead pig, they were so excited that they ignored Ralph's complaint about the smoke signal. While they roast the pig, they dance and sing around it. Jack didn't want to give Piggy meat, so Simon shares him.

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As Ralph walks along the beach, he thinks about how life is an improvisation and he needs to put everything in order, the meeting has to be serious and not for fun. Ralph blow the conch and all the boys form a triangle for the meeting.

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At the assembly, Ralph tells them that he wants to put everything in order because they are not following the rules. He reminds them to have water supplies, keep the place clean, help build shelters and take care of the smoke signal.

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They begin to talk about the nightmares of the littluns and the beast. Phil starts telling his dream and saying that he saw something in the night, but it was just Simon. Percival says that the beast lives in the water, later they begin to say that the beast is a ghost.

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Jack becomes angry and begins to challenge and criticize Ralph's authority. He tells him that despite being chosen as chief, his rules do not work. Jack says they are wild and encourages the other boys to behave like this.

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Ralph thinks about giving up and not being the chief of the group. Simon and Piggy tell him that they need him as a leader to survive because Jack's ideas are not good. Piggy tells Ralph that Jack hates him because he was chosen as the chief of the group.

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Simon and Jack take a littlun to the shelter. They could hear and see lights in the sky that were caused by the military planes fighting in the war. In an explosion, a figure with a parachute falls on the island.

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The twins are in charge of the fire signal and it almost went out because they fell asleep. After making the fire, they hear the parachute move and they see a figure in the dark, they think it is the beast.

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They get so scared that they run off to find Ralph. When they arrive at the shelters they tell him everything they saw but more exaggerated. Ralph decides to have a meeting, it begins to create an atmosphere of fear.

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At the meeting they decide to explore the only place on the island that has not been explored, if the beast was not there they could go up the mountain to light the fire. Ralph let Jack lead the way.

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That place is very similar to a castle because it has many rocks to protect it. Ralph and Jack go first and realize that there is no beast. The others start to play and push rocks, Ralph wants to turn on the signal but they ignore him.

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While the other boys eat, Ralph reflects on how everyone has changed and become careless. He sees the sea as a barrier that does not allow them to escape, Simon encourages him by telling him that they will be rescued.

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They find pig droppings, so Jack tells them that they need to hunt in order to get some meat. Ralph had never hunted but manages to hit the boar with the spear, so he gets very excited. The animal tasks hurt Jack's arm.

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Although they could not catch the boar, everyone is very excited, so they start to play a game where Robert is a pig and the others have to hunt him, they are so excited that they hurt Robert. Jack says that the next game they were going to use a littlun.

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As night falls, they begin to climb the mountain, Ralph realizes that they will not be able to return to the beach until morning. Simon offers to go with Piggy and the littluns to tell them where the group is.

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Although the hunters are tired and afraid, Jack wants to go up the mountain to search for the beast. He goes alone and when he comes back, he says that he saw something. The boys decide to go but they run away terrified because they see something similar to a sleeping ape.

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Piggy is confused because the others claim they saw the beast. Jack blows the conch to make a meeting and proposes to remove Ralph from his leadership position because he is very cowardly. They disagree with Jack and this makes him leave, he says that anyone can join him.

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Ralph is worried and sad because at night some children go to Jack's group. Piggy is happy that Jack is gone and tries to give Ralph some hope again. Piggy gives the idea that they  must make the fire signal on the beach instead of the mountain.

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On the other side of the island, Jack proclaims himself the new leader of his group. They go hunting and manage to catch a sow, they are so crazy that they cut off its head and leave it on a stake in the middle of the forest, as an offering to the beast.

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While Piggy and Ralph were talking, Jack and the group of hunters arrive very excited. Jack tells Ralph's followers that they are invited to eat what they hunted and that they can even join his group. They are undecided because they are hungry.

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Simon goes to the part of the forest that he had found earlier. He is scared to see the head of the sow and sees that it comes to life, the head tells him that he is the beast and that he is inside all human beings. Simon falls and loses consciousness

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Simon wakes up with a bleeding nose, he goes up the hill and finds the dead pilot with the parachute, he realizes that the pilot was what they heard and saw that they confused with the beast.

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After Simon vomited from seeing the dead body, he goes to tell the others what he has just discovered, so that all the problems will be over and everything will be controlled as it was before "seeing" the beast.

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Ralph and piggy decide to go to Jack's camp so that they do not get out of control, when they arrive they find Jack on his trunk like a king and the other children eating the pig. Many boys agreed to go to Jack's group instead of being with Ralph.

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A fight ensues between Jack and Ralph about who should be the leader, Ralph tries to use the shell as a symbol of authority but Jack tells him that in his part of the island it means nothing. Ralph tells them that a storm is coming.

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Jack orders the others to do his pig hunting dance, they obey him and behave so wild that when Simon arrives, they attack him until he dies and his body falls into the sea. Children run for shelter from the storm.

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Most of the boys had gone to Jack's group, only Piggy, Samneric and a few litluns remained with Ralph. Piggy and Ralph began to argue about what happened the night before, Ralph says it was a murder while Piggy says it was an accident.

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Sam and Eric return to the beach with a log, they get nervous when they talk about the night before, they try to avoid the topic of Simon's death and everyone assures that they left after eating.

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Roger tries to get accepted by Jack's group. Robert teaches him that they built something that makes a big rock fall, he also tells him that Jack tied up a boy named Wilfred for no reason. He hears Jack say that they will take the fire of the others.

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On the other side of the island, Ralph and the others are looking for firewood. They realize that since they are few, it will be more difficult and tiring to keep the fire signal. They remember how important the fire signal is to be saved.

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While Ralph's group are in the shelters, they hear noises outside. When they come out they realize that it is Jack and some hunters, they try to fight but they get hurt. First they thought they wanted the shell, but then they see that they took Piggy's glasses.

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The boys in Ralph's group are hurt and they try to start the fire, but they can't do it without Piggy's glasses. Ralph blows the shell to have a meeting and they decide to go with Jack, he proposes to dress as children and not as savages.

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When they arrive at Castle Rock, Ralph blows the shell so that the other boys remember what it represents, but they ignore it and start throwing stones at them. Ralph asks for the glasses and this causes a fight between Ralph and Jack, Jack tries to throw his spear at him.

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Piggy reminds Ralph of his purpose and for a moment the fight stops. Ralph tells them that the fire signal is very important to be rescued but they ignore him, Ralph collapses and causes another fight. Jack orders his group to tie up Sam and Eric.

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Piggy tries to convince them that it is not good to be wild and just want to hunt, he tells them that they must follow the rules as a civilization. Roger drops a stone and kills Piggy, also the shell breaks because he had it in his hands.

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There is silence for a moment, then Jack tells him that this happens to challenge his authority and he declares himself the new leader since the conch was broken. Jack throws a spear at Ralph, he runs off scared and Jack stays with the twins.

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As Ralph hides from Jack's group, he begins to think about the deaths of Piggy and Simon; he realizes that the boys are not the same as before and now they are wild. He knows that Jack is not going to leave him alone and decides to go to Castle Rock.

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When he arrives at Castle Rock he sees Sam and Eric, they are guarding the entrance and they tell Ralph that they are not going to join him. They only give him a piece of meat and warn him that Jack is going to send his hunters tomorrow to capture him.

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Jack goes to a bush to sleep, when he wakes up he hears that Jack is torturing the twins to find out where he is hiding. He tries to find another hiding place but realizes that Jack set the jungle on fire to get him out of his hiding place.

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Ralph begins to think that the fire is going to destroy the fruits and they will not have as much food. The hunters begin to follow Ralph and he decides to go to the beach, when he gets there he meets a naval officer. The officer saw the fire and decided to go to see what happened.

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The officer realizes that they have not followed the rules of a civilization because they do not know how many there are on the island. Ralph tells him that at first they were organized and begins to cry for all the deaths, the other children begin to go out and realize everything they did.