Chapter Five: Beast from Water

While looking at his feet, Ralph reflects about life and how much time is spent looking at one's feet. Ralph is also frustrated with his long, tangled hair. He decides to call for an assembly and blows the conch shell although it is late in the evening. After all the boys gather for the assembly, Ralph scrutinizes the group's failure to uphold the rules and requirements such as building shelters, gathering drinking water, upholding the signal fire, and using the designated toilet area. Ralph also reiterates the importance of the fire and attempts to sooth the group’s growing fear of beasts and monsters; however, Percival, a small child, speaks up and claims that he has actually seen a beast. When the others ask where it could hide during the daytime, he suggests that it might come up from the ocean at night. This thought terrifies the boys, but Jack reassures that if there is a beast that he and his hunters will kill it. Jack then torments Piggy and runs away, with many of the other boys following him. Eventually, only Ralph, Piggy, and Simon are left. Piggy then urges Ralph to blow the conch t0 summon all of the children back; however, Ralph does not fearing that he will be ignored and that there will not longer be an order. He tells Piggy and Simon that he might resign as chief of the group, but Simon and Piggy reassure him that the boys need his guidance.

Chapter Four: Painted Faces and Long Hair

The boys develop a daily rhythm on the island with pleasant mornings that allow the boys to play happily. By afternoon, though, the sun becomes blisteringly hot, and some of the boys nap, although they are often scared and confused of strange images that seem to flicker over the water. Piggy dismisses these images as mirages caused by sunlight striking the water, however. As night comes upon the island the hot temperatures drop and darkness falls quickly. This darkness troubles the boys; especially the "littluns" who have nightmares because of the previously mentioned beastie. The large amount of fruit consumed by the younger children causes them to suffer from diarrhea and stomach ailments. The act of a segregated community between the older kids and the younger kids is also mentioned. Next, Jack, obsessed with the idea of killing a pig, camouflages his face with clay and charcoal and enters the jungle to hunt, with several other boys. In the meantime on the beach, Ralph and Piggy see a ship on the horizon—but they also see that the smoke signal has died. This, in turn, allows the ship to sail by without knowledge of the boys. Ralph then becomes furious with Jack, because it was the hunters’ responsibility to see that the fire was maintained. Soon afterward, Jack and the hunters return from the jungle, covered in blood chanting a very violent and slightly demonic song on the actions of killing the pig. Furious by Jack's ignorance of the fire, Piggy argues with him causing Jack to become angry at Piggy and slapping him in the face, knocking Piggy's specs off. Quickly afterward Ralph joins in the arguement which forces Jack to apologize. As resentment builds between Ralph and Jack, Ralph lights the fire and all the boys eat the roasted pig.

Chapter Three: Huts on the Beach

Carrying a sharpened stick through the jungle, Jack trails a pig only to be disappointed as it evades him. Agitated, Jack goes to the beach where Ralph and Simon are making huts. Frustrated, Ralph starts to complain to Jack about the faulty shelters and the unwillingness of the other boys to work. Ralph then states that the children at assemblies act enthused in the requests of work although they never participate. Jack, uncaring of Ralph's problems, tells Ralph how he needs to provide barbs so the hunters could catch a pig. Soon afterward the two boys start bickering amongst each other with Ralph saying that Jack and his hunters use hunting as an excuse of getting out of real work, such as making huts. The boys continue arging for a while until they realize that they need to regain their sense of camaraderie, and they go swimming together in the lagoon; however, their feelings of mutual dislike remain and fester. In the meantime as they go off into the lagoon, Simon wonders off into the jungle and helps the "littluns" get fruit hanging off of a branch. Soon afterward, Simon moves deeper into the forest and eventually finds a beautiful open space full of flowers, birds, and butterflies.

Chapter Two: Fire on the Mountain

By the sound of the conch shell, Ralph gathers all of the children for another assembly. In this assembly, Ralph establishes that there are no adults on the island and that there must be rules that every child must abide by, such as needing to hold the conch before speaking. Another topic mentioned within this assembly is the need for hunters, as mentioned by Jack, to search and kill pigs for meat. Thirdly, within this assembly, a small child with a mulberry-colored mark on his face claims to the group that he saw a snake-like beastie. Lastly, Piggy notifies the group that they may be stuck on the island for a while and this prompts Ralph to propose that the group build a large signal fire on top of the island’s central mountain, so that any passing ships might see the fire and know that someone is trapped on the island. This, in turn without permission, adjourns the meeting with the children in search of firewood. As the firewood is placed on the mountain, the boys take Piggy's glasses to make a fire that soon withers away; however, on the second attempt to create the fire the boys set a swath of trees ablaze. This starts a huge fire that consumes a part of the island, and soon afterward the child with the mulberry-colored birthmark becomes missing.

Chapter One: The Sound of the Shell

In the first chapter of the Lord of the Flies, a young boy named Ralph meets another child who is eventually known as Piggy because of his weight. As the two venture into the area, they look for lost children that were involved with them in the plane crash. Both Piggy and Ralph explore what is thought to them to be an island and eventually come across a conch shell. Through persistant urging of Piggy, Ralph uses the conch shell as a horn to call all of the surviving children onto their location. As the children approach through the jungle, they all decide to have a meeting to elect their chief. Among requests of his companions, Ralph is elected as chief. As chief, Ralph then chooses two other children, Jack and Simon, to explore with him to determine if the area that they are in is actually an island. As the boys determine that the area they are in is actually an island, they decide to look for food on the way back to the congregation. As they walk back, they come across a pig tangled in the vines; however, Jack is afraid to kill the pig and it wiggles free.