In this part of the chapter, Jack is walking back to the beach. Discouraged by his failure of killing a pig and getting meat. Meanwhile, Ralph and Simon are attempting to build the huts for shelter. All the other boys have run off to bathe or play. Ralph is in deep focus trying to figure out how to improve the huts. He is completely oblivious to Jack’s return to the beach. Sweating profusely Jack asks Ralph for water, finally getting his attention off the huts. Ralph turns to him saying the coconuts are underneath a palm tree then he directs his attention back to the shelters. Struggling to place the palm trees, Simon asks a Ralph for help. As Ralph lifts a branch the leaves come apart, fluttering to the ground. Ralph looks at the mess with …show more content…
How everyone was going to work hard until the shelters were finished?"(Golding 50) Jack reminds Ralph that he and the hunters are not working on the huts. Ralph says the little boys are hopeless and the older ones are not any better. Jack tells Ralph that he is chief and should enforce what he says. Ralph lays back on the sand looking up at the sky. Sick of holding meetings just to have everyone disregard them, Ralph says, "I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running. Then we'd be, you know, very solemn, and someone would say we ought to build a jet, or a submarine, or a TV set. When the meeting was over they'd work for five minutes, then wander off or go hunting."(Golding 51). Jack remind Ralph that the boys want meat. Reminding jack that they also want shelters tells Jack that his hunters came back to the beach hours ago and are swimming. Bringing the attention back to himself Jack tells how he went deeper into the woods alone, and almost killed a pig. Ralph, still focused on building the huts, acts annoyed towards Jack's story and Jack notices. Jack adds more fuel to his story, counteracting Ralph's negativity, he says "But I shall!