CHAPTER 8

Ralph angers Jack by telling Piggy that Jack was scared of the beast attacked them. Jack is trying to convince the other boys to impeach Ralph. When the boys refuse to openly vote against Ralph, Jack announces that he is leaving and runs off into the forest.

Simon suggests they all go to the mountain, but no one wants to go. Piggy, glad that Jack is gone, suggests they build a signal fire on the beach so that they won't have to go up the mountain. While everyone gathers wood, most of the biguns creep away to join Jack. Simon disappears as well, going to his hidden spot in the forest. Piggy starts the fire with his glasses.

Meanwhile Jack leads another successful hunt, attacking and killing a pig and then cutting off her head on a stick as an offering to the beast, simon is thinking that the head is talking to him, until he loses consciousness.

VOCABULARY

• Glowered-to look or stare with dislike, disconnect, or anger .
• Rebuke-to express sharp, sterm disapproval
• demure-affectedly or coyly decorous, sober, or sedate.
• Fervor-great warmth and earnestness of feeling: to speak with great fervor

QUESTIONS

• How does ralph describe the beast?
• What does this do to the rest odf the group?
• Why does jack scream that ralph thinks his hunters are no good?
• Although he is not able to get the boys to vote ralph out of office as,
• Piggy says: "Now we've really got a beast." Who is he talking about?

QUESTION

• What is the problem with piggy and ralph's plan?
• Where did all the older boys go? Why?
• How is jack elected chief?
• What is different about this hunt than those described in the past?
• What problem does roger think of?

MORE QUESTION

• What doe jack do for the beast?
• Describe simon's strange encounter with the lord of the flies?
• Who or what is the lord of the flies?
• What is ralph scared of?
• What makes things break up the way they do?

MORE MORE

• What does jack come to ralph's camp for? What does piggy think they're after?
• What is the lord of the flies' warning?
• Why has the story begun to increasingly take place in the darkness?

REFLECT

• "If we can't separate our civilized self from our savage self, which will take over and why?"