Chapter 1 In the first chapter, the author tells us about the setting, introduces the first characters and what kind of situation these characters are in. The setting takes place on a island, where a bunch of boys were shot down onto. This is where we meet Ralph and Piggy. Ralph is 12 years old, makes fun of piggy, and is adventures. Piggy on the other hand has glasses, younger than Ralph, has asthma, can’t swim, but has a lot of knowledge and used to live with his Aunt. Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell, when blown into makes a sound and that sound brought all the scavenged boys towards the shell. All these boys are younger than Ralph, they were are hungry, scared, lost and have mixed emotions on there surroundings. At this point, we meet another character names Jack, who is the head of a choir group. When Ralph was elected the …show more content…
There are 2 powers (Jack and Ralph), there are the people (boys), in those boys you see the poor (younger boys), and the rich (older boys), the good (Ralph, Piggy, Simon), and the bad (Jack and his hunters). In this chapter it is more clear for me to see the conflict between Ralph and Jack. This chapter was a bit hard for me to understand. Chapter 5 This chapter talks about the so called Beast. The fear of the beast increases especially because it is night time and all of them are kids who are either 12 or younger. Jack takes notice of this fear and used it gain power over the rest of the boys. If you look at it in a certain way, Jack is basically turning them into Beasts themselves. Chapter 6 As the fear of the beast rapidly increases, you can also see that slowly the boys are starting to follow Jacks path and as Jacks power increases, Ralph losses it. If you go back to the beginning of the book, the reason all these boys are on this island is because of a war with England, and we can obversely see that there is war going on here on an island too at its own level. Chapter