How does Simon die? Why does Jack start his own tribe? Do the boys get rescued from the island? Why is Ralph chosen to be the chief? Why does Jack think he should be the chief? Who is the first boy to die on the island? Why does Jack hate Ralph? What is the beast?
What does Simon want to tell the other boys? How does Piggy die? Does Ralph survive? Why is the backdrop of the war important to the story? Summary Chapter 3. Summary: Chapter 3 Carrying a stick sharpened into a makeshift spear, Jack trails a pig through the thick jungle, but it evades him. Analysis: Chapter 3 The personal conflict between Ralph and Jack mirrors the overarching thematic conflict of the novel. Previous section Chapter 2 Next section Chapter 4.
Test your knowledge Take the Chapter 3 Quick Quiz. Popular pages: Lord of the Flies. Summoned by the blast of sound from the shell, boys start to straggle onto the beach. The oldest among them are around twelve; the youngest are around six. They march to the beach in two parallel lines, and Jack snaps at them to stand at attention.
The boys taunt Piggy and mock his appearance and nickname. The boys decide to elect a leader. The choirboys vote for Jack, but all the other boys vote for Ralph. Ralph wins the vote, although Jack clearly wants the position.
To placate Jack, Ralph asks the choir to serve as the hunters for the band of boys and asks Jack to lead them. The three explorers leave the meeting place and set off across the island. The prospect of exploring the island exhilarates the boys, who feel a bond forming among them as they play together in the jungle. Eventually, they reach the end of the jungle, where high, sharp rocks jut toward steep mountains.
The boys climb up the side of one of the steep hills. From the peak, they can see that they are on an island with no signs of civilization. The view is stunning, and Ralph feels as though they have discovered their own land.
As they travel back toward the beach, they find a wild pig caught in a tangle of vines. Jack, the newly appointed hunter, draws his knife and steps in to kill it, but hesitates, unable to bring himself to act.
The pig frees itself and runs away, and Jack vows that the next time he will not flinch from the act of killing. The three boys make a long trek through dense jungle and eventually emerge near the group of boys waiting for them on the beach. Lord of the Flies dramatizes the conflict between the civilizing instinct and the barbarizing instinct that exist in all human beings. Over the course of the novel, Golding portrays the rise and swift fall of an isolated, makeshift civilization, which is torn to pieces by the savage instincts of those who compose it.
In this first chapter, Golding establishes the parameters within which this civilization functions. We are offering support for students and teachers. Please click here. William Golding would have been years old today, and this week also marks the 65 th anniversary of the publication of Lord of the Flies. This astonishing novel is still read by millions of people every year, and its themes of the breakdown of civilisation , democratic failure, war and violence, feel as relevant now as they did then.
Lord of the Flies has often appeared in popular culture , from television shows, to films and in music. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies in it was eventually published in after the end of the Second World War, and during the early years of the Cold War. The Cold War was characterised by the threat of nuclear weapons and in the original manuscript, the opening pages described atomic warfare which the boys were being evacuated from. About the atom bomb? And indeed, Golding presents a beautiful landscape, entirely untouched by humans:.
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