7th Blog Entry

Chapter 7: Shadows and Tall Trees

1 Piggy

2 Ralph

3 Jack

4 Simon

Summary of Chapter 7:

-Jack and Ralph lead the boys to the top of the mountain to find the "Beast". On their journey, Ralph begins to reminisce about his life back home. Simon stops him and they have a conversation and Simon tells him that he'll get back where he came from.

-It is getting late, Simon volunteers to go back to camp and let Piggy and little ones know that the rest will continue their journey to the mountain.

-Jack convinces Ralph that they should hunt for awhile to eat. They see a boar and try to capture it, but it escaped. Ralph was able to jab it and was excited from the thrill of the hunt. The boys relive the scene and pretend that Robert is the boar. They encircle him and begin grabbing at jabbing him, even Ralph was involved. They chanted: "Kill the pig, cut his throat, kill the pig, bash him in." They all begin to discuss various ceremonial traditions that they should start doing after killing a pig, such as having a drum. Ralph begins to lose focus of why they are all there. He soon comes out of his trance and shouts that they need to go find the beast.

-As they near the top of the mountain, only Jack, Ralph, and Roger go to the top because the rest were too frightened. They see the pilot and think it's a beast and they lower their spears and run frantically down the mountain in fear.

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