Chapter Seven: Shadows and Tall Trees
1. The boys pause in their hunt for the beast to pursue a boar.
2. Ralph joins in.
3. When the boar escapes, the boys chant, “Kill the pig!” and circle about Robert prodding him with their spears in mock murder.
4. Even Ralph feels an urge to tear at the boy’s bare flesh.
5. As darkness falls, Jack challenges Ralph to accompany him to the mountain.
6. Ralph accepts, and Roger joins them.
7. At the top of the cliff, in a gap in the rocks, the boys see, “something like a great ape.”
8. It seems at first to be sleeping, but then it lifts a contorted face towards them and they flee in terror.
Chapter 8: Gift for the Darkness
- Jack goes out with the hunters and viciously kills a mother pig while butterflies dance overhead.
- Jack wants to prove to the others that he is the rightful chief.
- Ralph thinks the most important thing to do is to build a fire that creates smoke.
- Jack believes the most important task is to kill and eat meat.
- Simon wanders off and either has heatstroke or has eaten a berry that causes him to hallucinate thinking the “Pig which has been stuck on a pole by the hunters,” is actually the symbolic “Lord of the Flies.”
- Jack and his hunters raid the fire on the beach built by Piggy.
- Jack invites all the littluns’ and the non-hunters to his feast.
- Simon is still in the jungle and collapses, he is now unconscious.