LORD OF THE FLIES

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referred to as the "littluns" and the older boys as "bigguns" although the younger children are referred to more collectively in the story. Ralph is elected chief of the group and his first action is for Jack, Simon and himself to go on a scout to check if the island is really and island or is attached to anything else, they find that it is an island and return to the rest of the boys.

It is decided at the meeting held by Ralph that people should only be allowed to speak at meetings if they have possession of the conch, thus giving the conch a special power to the boys. It is also decided that the choir should become hunters for food, with Jack (the choir leader) in charge of them. Above all this though is the importance of a fire being lit and staying alight night and day for a ship to see and hopefully rescue them.

At this point a small boy comes forward and tells the boys that he saw a monster which he calls a "beastie" in the woods. This is met with mockery and a little ...

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the forest, and Simon to help erase their fears tells them that it was him in the forest that the boy saw. Simon also puts forward the thought that "Maybe it's really only us" but because of his shyness cannot really formulate the idea. Jack says that if there is a beast his hunters will hunt it down, but the boys have little faith in this proposition.

Sam and Eric go to the mountain and believe they saw the beast, describing him in rather incongruent terms though they convey the general fear. Increasingly the boys believe in the beast although Simon still refuses to believe that such a thing could exist.

Ralph goes hunting with the others and decides that it is a bit of fun after ...

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