Period 5
1-7-13
Chapter 1
Summary: A plane crashes on an island and a boy named Ralph and a fat boy named Piggy explore the island and find a conch shell by a pool and call the other boys and establish a meeting. It is decided that Ralph is their chief and the choir leader named Jack, Simon, and Ralph climb to the top of a mountain and survey the island and confirm no other people live there. They rejoiced because the island belongs to them.
Quotation: "They knew very well why he hadn't: because of the enormity of the knife descending and cutting into living flesh; because of the unbearable blood." (31).
Quotation Significance: On the way to the mountain, the boys find a piglet covered in creepers. And one of the boys asks why Jack didn't stab the piglet. Without asking the boys knew the answer, they couldn't bear the thought of ending someone's life and seeing the blood drain out of any creature.
Reflection: This island is full of a bunch of boys who are lost, hungry, and looking for leadership. They find this in Ralph. Ralph has a vote and makes himself the leader and Jack remains the leader of his choir boys, and he has absolute leadership of the boys. Piggy is upset because he asks Ralph not to call him Piggy but he tells the boys of Piggy's nickname. Piggy is upset and tells Ralph but Ralph doesn't seem to care and gives him the job of learning all the names of the boys. When the three boys are on the mountains they discover that the island is uninhabited. On the way to the mountain, the scene where the piglet is covered with creepers I am thinking that it might be a metaphor. I heard that in this story the boys all end up slowly killing one another so I'm thinking that the creepers are the killers (a group of boys) and the piglet is their weak victim (a boy like Piggy). I also get this idea because of the title of the book.
Discussion Question: Do you think that the boys will establish a working community under the authority of Ralph or will conflict occur?
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