Реферат: Chapter By Chapter Summary
The fire is re-lit and the pig is roasted. Jack hands out portions of meat to all the boys except Piggy. Simon gives his portion to Piggy and Jack can t stand it. The tension is broken and the story of the hunt is re-enacted by the boys. Maurice pretends to be a pig, while the rest dance and chant around him. This is the first time the dance is preformed. Ralph tells them all that he is calling an assembly even though it is dark out.
Chapter 5
Beast From Water
An assembly is called and the group of kids come. Ralph talks about how they start projects and never finish them. No one is abiding by the rules very strictly; they don t gather water in coconuts anymore, nor do they use the designated places as bathrooms. And of course, there is the matter about the fire. He tells them that …we ought to die before we let fire out. He tells the hunters that the fire is more important than a pig. Furthermore, he explains that, Things are breaking up. I don t understand why. We began well; we were happy. And then …Then people started getting frightened.
They are all frightened of the Beast, and the children have been talking about it a large animal living on the island. The Beast, in reality, is something that resides in all of the kids a sort of dangerous evil that must be withheld. Ralph, from the start, has tried to hold it back by laying down rules and organizing society. Nonetheless, none of the kids yet realize this, and the Beast is manifested in their minds as an animal lurking on the island.
Jack argues that he has been everywhere on the island and has never seen a beast. Piggy gets up and makes a very important speech in which he states that there isn t a beast, at least, …not with claws, and all that… Also, …there isn t no fear either…Unless we get frightened of people.
A littlun comes forward and talks of how he had been dreaming about fighting the the creepers and saw something horrid in the forest. It turns out that the horrid thing was Simon, who had been returning from the clearing he likes to be at. Another littlun comes forward, Percival, and explains another type of beast the Beast from the water. Again, this is debated. Then, Simon takes the conch and says something very important. He says that, Maybe there is a beast… What I mean is… maybe it s only us. Simon begins to understand what the Beast really is, but his is jeered at and will be jeered at for the rest of the novel, until his death.
The debate continues and turns toward talk of the rules. Jack doesn t know why Ralph has the right to make rules. He points out that Ralph cannot hunt, nor can he sing. Ralph counters that he was chosen and that is reason enough. More arguing ensues, and, The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Jack turns against Piggy as well: Bullocks to the rules! We re strong we hunt! If there s a beast, we ll hunt it down! We ll beat and beat and beat ! Jack does not like rules and the Beast within him his beginning to expose itself little by little.
The assembly breaks up and the hunters do their dance once again. The boys are drifting apart into two distinct groups: those who follow Ralph s ideas and those who follow Jack. At the close of the chapter, Ralph, Simon and Piggy are sitting on the assembly platform listening the cries of the littluns nightmares.
Chapter 6
Beast From Air
Two fighter planes are engaged in a nighttime battle over the island more evidence that the world is at war. One of them is shot down and the pilot bails out and opens his parachute, but he is already dead. As the victor flies away the dead man floats to the island only to be caught on the rocks of the mountain. There he will stay for some days, slowly rotting. Presently, though, the twins Samneric are on fire duty and have fallen asleep. They wake up, re-light the fire, and see the Beast from air breathing in and out. They run to tell Ralph. As the sun is rising an assembly is called.
The kids all believe that they are now in terrible danger. Jack calls for volunteers to help him go to the top and kill it. A debate ensues and it is determined that the Beast does not leave tracks and moves by swinging through the tree tops, which is why Jack has never seen traces of it. It is decided that a party of hunters, plus Ralph and Simon, will go to hunt the Beast. Piggy is left at the beach with the littluns. They will first check the only place on the island that no one has been to: Castle Rock. If the Beast is not there then they will check the mountain and re-light the fire.
They trek to the castle and discover that nothing is there. Jack exclaims that the rock would make a great fort and he and his hunters proceed to push a boulder into the sea. Ralph breaks up the fun and they start the journey to the mountain.
Chapter 7
Shadows and Tall Trees
As they make their way to the mountain they stop to eat and rest and Ralph thinks about how dirty and scraggly they all look. He yearns to have his hair cut and take a bath revealing again his character and longing to hold back the wild.
They start off and Jack finds traces of a pig. They decide to hunt it. A boar is found and Ralph wounds him with his spear. He is delighted that he made the only strike on the animal. The boar gets away and the hunters begin to dance again, but this time it is a little different. Robert is playing the part of the pig, but the kids are a slightly out of hand and some of the fake blows to the pig are landing hard. Even Ralph, who previously shunned the dance and chanting feels that, …the desire to squeeze and hurt was overmastering. Here is the first time we see Ralph having trouble suppressing the Beast.
They continue to the mountain and Simon is sent through the forest to tell Piggy and the others that the hunting party will not be back before dark. Night falls as they reach the base of the mountain and the boys argue about whether or not they should wait until morning to scale it. Jack goes to the top and comes back down, reporting that he saw something billowing up on top. They all climb to the summit and see the Beast. Instead of fighting it and finding out that it is only a man, they run. As they flee, …the creature lifted its head, holding toward them a ruin of a face.
Chapter 8
Gift for the Darkness
The tale of the Beast is related to Piggy and the boys must decide what to do. Ralph tells Jack that they are not armed well enough to kill it. Someone comments that, …now that thing sits by the fire as though it didn t want us to be rescued. Which, in a sense, is what the real beast is doing.
Jack calls an assembly by blowing the conch. He tells the group that the Beast is real; they have seen it. Also, Ralph has called the hunters cowards and Jack accuses Ralph of being a coward himself. Jack asks the assembly if any of them think Ralph should not be chief. No one raises their hand. Jack, in defiance, says, All right then… I m not going to play any longer. Not with you…I m not going to be a part of Ralph s lot. Jack feels that survival is a game to be played and he is fed up with the rules that Ralph deals. He invites others to come join him and runs off into the forest.
Simon steps forward to propose that they climb the mountain. No one wants to. Instead, Piggy decides that the signal fire should be moved to the beach, and the kids start building a fire. The fire is lit, and as the crowd gathers, it is noticeably smaller. Most of the bigguns have left to go play with Jack. The only bigguns left are Ralph, Piggy, Samneric and Simon.
Simon wonders off to the mat of creepers, while Jack gathers a group of boys in the forest to teach them how to hunt. They decide that Jack will be chief, they will forget the Beast, and they will try to take more bigguns away from Ralph.
They begin to track a pig and and it leads them to Simon s clearing. A few pigs are laying around and the group decides to attack a sow and her piglets. The piglets escape, but the sow is brutally killed. Jack decides to offer the pig s head as a gift to the Beast. He orders his new henchman, Roger, to sharpen a stick at both ends. One end is jammed in the rocky earth and the other is draped with the head of the sow. Simon climbs from under the creepers and is confronted with the head.
Later, Jack and his gang raid Ralph s encampment. They steal a burning log for their own fire and Jack invites all the boys to come join his tribe at the feast they are to have that night. As the savages leave Ralph comments about how he wishes he could have fun too, but still the fire is more important to him. Nonetheless, this importance of the fire and of rescue are drifting away from Ralph and he must be constantly reminded of it by Piggy. A storm is building above the island and thunder promises rain.
Back at the clearing Simon is having a discussion with the pig s head. This discussion is probably mostly in Simon s head, but Golding uses this interview as an eerie way to unveil the theme of the novel. Golding now refers to the fly-covered pig s head as the Lord of the Flies. The Lord of the Flies asks Simon if he s afraid of him. It says:
…I am the Beast… Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn t you? I m part of you? Close, close, close! I m the reason it s no go? Why things are the way they are?