Simon wakes up in the night and finds the body of the dead parachutist and instead of looking to see what it really was runs back to tell the others that he’s found ‘the beast’.
Ralph gets told that Samneric and Bill have gone to Jack’s group to get meat so Ralph and Piggy decide to go to and find out what’s going on.
When Piggy and Ralph arrive they see everyone there (except Simon) laughing and enjoying themselves. Jack who spots Piggy and Ralph tells his group to give Piggy and Ralph some meat. Jack then has the audacity to ask who will join infront of Ralph who then argues that he is still the leader.
The argument is stopped as there was lightning and thunder which makes some of the boys nervous, Jack then tells the boys to dance around the pig the boys listen and begin to chant
“Kill the Beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”
Simon then arrives and has news to tell (he finds out that the beast is not a beast and is the dead parachutist) but he stumbles into the middle of the ritual and the children end up killing him.
November 30, 2016 at 8:54 am
Another clear and thorough summary.
Look at my previous target of exploring the language. For example: the sentences used in your previous quotation are all direct commands – why is this? Are there any other patterns you notice about these sentences? Why might these patterns be there?