Chapter Summaries

This is a collecion of summaries for all the chapters in the book lord of the flies.

Chapter 1
Chapter one of the Lord of the flies starts out on an island a boy named Piggy and a boy named Ralph  run into each other on the beach. They get to talking about themselves and the situation that they are in wondering exactly what happenned and exactly where they are. Piggy finds a conch shell in the lagoon like pond on the beach and shows Ralph that they can blow it to make noise. Ralph blows the conch and all the boys on the island come running to the sound of the conch. They begin to make their own tribe making Ralph the leader with Jack second in command. Simon a younger boy Jack and Ralph all head out on a trip around the island to ensure that there is nobody living on it and to make sure that it is and island. The chapter ends with the three boys coming down off the cliff like hill returning to all the other boys.

Chapter 2
Chapter 2 begins with the boys deciding that whoever holds the conch gets to speak and when the conch is blown everybody will gather for an assembly. They begin to talk about how their were no adults on the island and then Piggy gets the conch. Piggy begins to blabber on about how there are tons of little islands like the one that they are on in the ocean and nobody has any clue that their plane has crashed and he thinks that they are going to be stuck on that island forever with no rescue and nobody even looking for them. Ralph and Jack begin to discuss what they will have to do next like kill the pig that was trapped in the vines or make a signal fire. Once the topic of a signal fire is brung up the boys race up the mountain creating a fire that is too big and they end up setting blaze to part of the forest.