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1
Q

Ralph and Jack talk about the

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fire

2
Q

Ralph says that they put green

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branches on the fire

3
Q

there might be a

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ship

4
Q

Jack is actually talking about ways to kill a

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pig and Ralph becomes enraged

5
Q

Ralph starts complaining about how he works with Simon only and how

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Jack actually likes what he does.

6
Q

Ralph mentions how, whenever he calls meetings, the boys agree to work, but then soon after they

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neglect the work they just agreed to do

7
Q

Simon→”He wanted to explain how people were never

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what you thought they were.”

8
Q

the little kids were basically

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uninvolved with the older kids

9
Q

Robert and Maurice go over to where little boys are

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playing in the sand.

10
Q

Maurice throws sand at Percival and then

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runs away so he doesn’t get in trouble.

11
Q

The little boy Henry is captivated by creatures in the sea, and Roger is about to

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throw stones at him, intentionally missing because he doesn’t want to get in trouble

12
Q

The boys are remembering the laws of

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their old lives

13
Q

jack uses clay to mask

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his face so that he can finally kill a pig

14
Q

the little boy with the mulberry-marked face was

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never found

15
Q

there was a ship that came and ralph ran to

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see it but the fire was let out

16
Q

jack returned with the hunters, they finally got a pig but Ralph was

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indignant because Jack let the fire go out

17
Q

chant for killing pig→

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“kill the pig. Cut her throat. bash her in.”

18
Q

After piggy yelled at jack for letting the fire out, jack

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punched him and smacked his head, causing Piggy’s glasses to fly off

19
Q

one side of piggy’s glasses are

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broken

20
Q

despite the boys’ excitement for having killed the pg, ralph was still

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enraged and he stated that he would be calling a meeting

21
Q

ralph realized that piggy, unlike essentially everyone else,

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had the ability to think

22
Q

ralph calls a meeting and affirms that the fire will

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only be on the mountain

23
Q

ralph also scolds the boys because they are not working

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hard enough and aren’t keeping the island clean

24
Q

percival claimed that the beast

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lived in the water

25
Q

simon took the conch and claimed that maybe there is a beast and that maybe the beast is

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within them, the humans

26
Q

simon gave up trying to express himself when

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everyone laughed at him

27
Q

jack threatened ralph’s authority by breaking the

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rules and questioning the basis of ralph’s orders

28
Q

ralph contemplates resigning from being chief, but piggy and simon

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tell him not to

29
Q

piggy suggests that jack hates ralph too because

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jack isn’t chief

30
Q

a figure came down on a

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parachute

31
Q

sam and eric were

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keeping the fire going

32
Q

the twins (sam and eric→Samneric) claimed they saw the

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beast, so some of the boys went on an expedition to find it

33
Q

they didn’t find a beast and ralph started yelling about

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getting a signal again

34
Q

ralph hit a boar with his spear and then the boys pretended

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robert was a pig and pretended to kill him

35
Q

ralph asked jack why he

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hates him. jack didn’t respond

36
Q

jack had gone up the mountain by himself and returned, claiming that he saw something

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bulge. ralph suggested to go see what it is

37
Q

jack calls a meeting and asks the boys to raise their hands if they don’t want

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ralph to be chief, but no one raises their hands

38
Q

jack runs away crying, claiming that he will not be

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part of Ralph’s lot anymore

39
Q

Piggy suggested that they move the fire from the mountain to

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the beach since the beast was at the mountain

40
Q

some of the other boys left with

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jack later in the day

41
Q

jack and the other raided Ralph’s part of the island to

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get fire

42
Q

simon’s sitting there, hallucinating that the dead

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pig’s head is talking to him (the lord of the flies)

43
Q

the boys are becoming increasingly

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violent and bloodthirsty