By this point in the book, I am really involved in what is going on. There are so many aspects of the story to discuss.
Ralph's camp is desperately trying to keep the fire going, but failing miserably. When the fire goes out, Ralph's hope to get of of the island is done for good. Their hope is lost completely and they are just trying to survive. One good aspect of this situation is that they are still trying to run a society despite the loss of Piggy's glasses! The boys even call an assembly for the boys that haven't gone over to Jack's camp.
When Ralph's team went to steal the glasses back I was scared for them! I had to ask myself: What's going to happen here? I predicted that something bad was going to occur, but fortunately nothing catastrophic happened right away. The whole time Ralph's party was at Jack's camp Piggy clung to the conch: the only connection with order on the island. As the squabbling continued I began to sense that something bad was going to happen to Piggy. Didn't he seem so vulnerable just sitting there holding on to a fragile shell for dear life?! My prediction came true when the boulder came and smashed Piggy and the conch: destroying all symbols of society with them.
Jack doesn't seem to be quite as big of a threat as Roger at the moment. Roger really reminds me of a character in a book I read recently: "Water for Elephants." In my book one character was in charge of throwing people off of the moving train when they were no longer "useful." This is kind of what Roger has become, I think. He was a huge threat to Ralph in the last couple of chapters!
As the book continued and Ralph was up against all of the savages, I truthfully believed that he didn't have a chance. If it wasn't for Samneric helping him, I am pretty sure that Roger would have killed him first chance he got!
Isn't it ironic that the boys originally used a fire as a signal to be rescued, and then the actual rescue happened because of a fire set to kill Ralph?
I thought that the book should have ended with a bang instead of the boys crying in relief that a ship captain had found the island, but all in all this was a great, sometimes disturbing story about human nature. It is really an eye opener!
CHARRED- to burn or reduce to charcoal.
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