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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Can someone give me a Long summary with spoilers of LORD OF THE FLIES?Question: Can someone give me a Long summary with spoilers of LORD OF THE FLIES!? My friend gave me a short summary of it and it sounded pretty interesting can u give me a long summary with spoilers so i can get a Sense of it sounds good or not!.
I think it probably will because most of the books my friend recommends to me are good but i just wanna look it over!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The story itself takes place on an isolated island!. A plane has crashed, and it transpires that there are no adult survivors!. Two English boys named Ralph and Piggy form the initial focus, as they begin to make sense of their new surroundings!. The boys soon find a conch shell and Piggy suggests that Ralph uses the conch as a horn to call for any other survivors who might be nearby!. The boys include "biguns" (several older children) and "littluns" (younger children), and rapidly divide into two camps headed by Ralph, and another older boy named Jack (the head of a choir group that also landed on the island)!. Ralph is voted in charge and calls everyone together to work toward two common goals, the first being to have fun and the second to be rescued by creating a constant fire signal, to be lit using Piggy's glasses!. For a time the boys work together towards building shelters, gathering food and water, and keeping the fire going!. The one goal which constantly gets sidelined is keeping the signal fire going as some of the boys, the hunters, led by Jack, focus their energy on hunting the wild pigs on the island!. The children's belief in a beast on the island also creates a problem!. The children begin to split into two groups, based on the existence of the beast!. Ralph attempts to disprove the existence of the beast while Jack exploits the belief in the beast to encourage his group of hunters!. Jack soon forms a separate tribe from Ralph's!. Jack gains defectors from Ralph's tribe by promising them meat, fun, and, most importantly, protection from the beast!. Jack's tribe gradually becomes more savage and they use face paint and focus mainly on hunting, while Ralph's group focuses on keeping the fire going and getting rescued!. Simon, a part of Ralph's tribe, sets off on a mission to investigate the mountain!. While on his way there, he find the pig's head on a stick Jack put there earlier, and begins to hallucinate!. He sees the head as "The Lord of the Flies," and believes that it is talking to him, telling him the truth, that they created the beast, and that the real beast was inside him, inside them all!. He also finds the dead parachuter which had been mistaken for the beast!. On his return, he arrives at the peak of a tribal ritual at Jack's tribe, and his explanation goes unheard as he is killed!. Jack's tribe then raid Ralph's camp, attacking the non-hunters in order to steal Piggy's glasses in order to make a cooking fire!. By this time Ralph's tribe consists of just himself, Piggy, and twins Sam and Eric!. They all go to the rock fort of Jack's tribe to try to get back Piggy's glasses so he can see!. In the ensuing confrontation Piggy is struck by a boulder thrown by Roger knocking him off the cliff; he falls to his death!. The conch is shattered into millions of pieces by the launched rock!. Eric and Sam are captured and both become part of Jack's tribe, leaving Ralph by himself!. In the final sequence of the book, Jack and his friend Roger lead the tribe of 'hunters' on a hunt for Ralph, intending to kill him!. In order to do this Jack sets the entire island on fire!. The fire is so large that it attracts the attention of a nearby warship which comes to the island and rescues the boys!. A navy officer lands on the island and his sudden appearance brings the children's fighting to an abrupt halt!. When learning of the boys' activities, the officer remarks that he would have expected better from British boys!. In the final scene of the book, Ralph cries, in mourning for his friend Piggy, his own loss of innocence, and his newfound awareness of the darkness of human nature!. A hint of the author's intention can be found in the final description of the officer as he remains unaware of the importance of the events that have transpired, watching his peacefully floating ship (representing civilization) that is still described as far away!.Www@QuestionHome@Com okay basically i think u should read to book for yourself but since you really want to know piggy and simon get killed Www@QuestionHome@Com Go to www!.sparknotes!.comWww@QuestionHome@Com |