Lord of the Flies Chapter 1 Read Aloud
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Lord of the Flies Chapter 1 Summary
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- When our story begins, "the off-white boy" makes his fashion out of a jungle and toward a lagoon.
- A cherry and yellowish bird flashes upward with a witch-similar weep (eerie, isn't information technology?) just as another youngster, "the fat boy" who is wearing "thick spectacles" follows behind.
- The ii boys run into and hash out the fact that, holy smokes, their plane has crashed.
- The fat male child wonders where the man with the megaphone is, which nosotros should all continue in mind for the next few paragraphs.
- Likewise, there are no grown-ups.
- Also, they can't notice the plane or the pilot. The off-white male child concludes that both must have been dragged out to sea by a tempest. He makes the dire statement that "There must have been some kids still in it," "it" being the plane that went out to sea.
- The fat boy (seriously, that's what he's called) asks the off-white boy (over again, that'due south what he's called) what his proper name is.
- It's Ralph. Ralph has no interest in learning the fatty male child's name.
- But, the pair assumes others have survived and are around here somewhere, maybe hiding in the copious foliage or something.
- The fatty boy lags behind Ralph considering of his "ass-mar," which is probably "asthma." Likewise, the fat boy has to poo. (English major-y people called this kind of thing "realism.")
- Ralph races ahead to the water, and nosotros get a detailed description of the shore, the palm copse, the fibroid grass, and the decaying coconuts. This is all in dissimilarity to "the darkness of the forest."
- Ralph decides the thing to do is have a swim. And then he gets naked. Many more naked boys to come up, past the way, so exist prepared.
- While we're busy getting a clarification of Ralph, the fat male child shows up and joins in the nude swimming fun. The water is "warmer than [their] blood [. . .] like swimming in a huge bathroom." (So, a delightful hot tub, if you ignore the blood imagery.)
- Nosotros get a overnice description of Ralph; he is twelve and has the build of mayhap being a boxer someday when he's older, but you can as well plainly see that there is "no devil" in him. Lastly, he has "bright, excited eyes."
- The fat boy admits to Ralph that about people call him "Piggy," and asks Ralph not to tell anyone.
- Ralph is not the nicest guy to Piggy ("They call you PIGGY!?" sort of thing), simply we're holding out judgment on him since he is, after all, a twelve-year-old boy.
- Ralph claims that his father, who is in the Navy, is going to come up rescue them.
- Piggy, however, says the pilot told them (before the crash) that an diminutive bomb had gone off and everyone was dead.
- This, combined with the earlier megaphone comment, suggests that perhaps the boys were being evacuated, maybe even from some kind of war zone, when the plane crashed.
- Anyway, Piggy asserts that they're probably going to have to "stay here till [they] die."
- On this cheerful note, they decide to put their apparel dorsum on. In doing so, they detect a large white conch shell, which Piggy remembers is a faux, MacGyver-style megaphone.
- Ralph makes several efforts earlier an amazing audio comes out of the shell, "a deep, harsh smash."
- Equally you might wait, man has ruined the peaceful stillness of the virgin island.
- Amidst the squawking birds and scurrying furry things, the other boys come out of the woodwork. Some are small. Many are naked.
- While Ralph continues to revel in the "violent pleasure" of blowing the conch, Piggy goes to great lengths to ask and learn everyone's name, amid them a young kid named Johnny and a pair of twins named Sam and Eric.
- Ralph sees a nighttime, fumbling creature, but concludes that it is only a grouping of boys wearing black choir robes. There is a redheaded boy at the head of the pack "controlling them."
- The boy commands them all to stand in a line. We're thinking information technology must exist rather uncomfortable in the sun to be wearing heavy, black cloaks, and our suspicions are confirmed when one of the boys faints, confront-first, in the sand.
- The boys enquire the redheaded leader (Merridew) "But can't we, Merridew…" which we think ways "Please let us take off these absurd cloaks."
- Merridew ignores the boy who'south fainted.
- Piggy doesn't ask names of this group, since they're kind of scary. Just he does remind everyone that names are oh-so-important.
- About this fourth dimension, Ralph tells everyone that Piggy's name is Piggy. Nice.
- And now we meet the rest of the cast. We've got Maurice, who smiles a lot; Jack Merridew, the tyrant you already met and the largest of the choir boys; Roger, who is "slight" and "furtive" and has an "inner intensity of abstention and secrecy"; Simon, who has recovered from his fainting spell; and and so Bill, Robert, Harold, and Henry.
- Guess which one is evil incarnate.
- Jack says they should work out the getting rescued part.
- Ralph's response is "Shut upwards." He decides they need a principal.
- Jack declares that, nearly sensibly, he should be chief because he's the head male child of the choir and can sing a C abrupt, which everyone knows will come in handy afterwards when negotiating with foreign peoples.
- Because they are good British boys who know how to follow parliamentary procedure, they make up one's mind to vote. Amazingly, they pull this off without the aid of an balloter college, and Ralph becomes primary (although the choir boys did vote for Jack out of obligation).
- Interestingly, Piggy hesitated to vote for Ralph, probably because Ralph screwed him over with the whole name thing.
- "But why was Ralph elected?" you ask. Actually, Golding tells us. He says Ralph has a stillness, is attractive, and about importantly has the conch.
- Ralph feels bad and gives Jack a consolation prize. No, not a useless vice presidency, only rather control over the choirboys.
- Jack decides his group (the choir-boys) volition act as the hunters. Plainly, he's ability-hungry AND bloodthirsty.
- Ralph, Jack and Simon go off to explore the uninhabited island for the purpose of discovering if it is, in fact, uninhabited.
- Piggy offers to become, simply Jack tells him he's not suited for a job like this (with all the walking and such). Piggy protests, simply Ralph sends him back to accept names.
- They do notice tracks and wonder aloud what fabricated them. Ralph asks "Men?" and Jack answers "Animals." Hmm!
- Like all proficient exploring banter, their dialogue is filled with such British wonders as "wacco," "wizard" and "sucks to you lot!"
- The boys find a large rock poised near the edge of the cliff and practise the simply thing that pre-teen boys could exist expected to do in such a circumstance: push it over the edge. It falls "like a bomb."
- They finally climb to the top of this big mountain they've found and look all effectually at the island. Ralph says "This belongs to us."
- They make some cartographic observations of the state, noting the large coral reef and the gash in the trees where their plane hit.
- On their manner back to the lagoon, they discover a pocket-sized squealer, tangled in the creepers. Jack raises his knife to kill information technology, but can't quite bring himself to, and the pig escapes.
- Jack makes lots of excuses, merely he thinks, "Next time at that place [will] be no mercy."
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