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- A plane carrying school boys is shot down onto a desert island during wartime. All the adults are killed.
- Ralph and Piggy find and blow the conch. All the boys gather.
- Ralph is elected leader over Jack. Ralph makes Jack the head of the hunters.
- Ralph explores the island with Jack and Simon. They spot a pig, but are unable to kill it.
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- At a second assembly, Ralph makes rules, says that the island is a good island, and dismisses some of the younger boys’ fears of a “beastie” as just a nightmare.
- The boys make a signal fire, using Piggy’s glasses to light it. They accidentally burn a patch of the forest.
- Piggy scolds the boys for acting childish. Jack mocks Piggy, then volunteers his hunters to keep the fire lit at all times.
- The boy who saw the “beastie” disappears.
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- Jack grows obsessed with hunting, but is unable to kill any pigs.
- Only Simon helps Ralph build the shelters on the beach. Ralph and Jack start to argue about whether hunting or building shelters is more important, and only barely avoid coming to blows.
- As Jack and Ralph argue, Simon slips away and meditates in a secret forest glade.
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- Roger throws rocks at a littleun, but purposely misses by a few feet.
- Jack calls Roger into the forest. Jack, Roger, and other boys paint their faces and then go hunting.
- Jack’s hunters kill a pig, but they neglect the signal which goes out just as a ship is passing. Ralph and Jack argue. Humiliated, Jack mocks and hits Piggy, breaking a lens of Piggy’s glasses. Everyone laughs at Piggy. Ralph realizes that he and Piggy are now allies..
- Jack and his hunters do a dance re-enacting the killing of the pig. Ralph calls an assembly and walks away.
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- Before the assembly, Ralph wishes he was as smart as Piggy.
- During the assembly, Jack mocks the littleuns who fear the beast. Piggy agrees that there is no beast.
- The littleun Percival says the beast comes from the sea. Simon says maybe the boys themselves are the beast. The boys don’t understand what he’s talking about.
- As the meeting descends into chaos, Jack questions Ralph’s leadership, says the he will hunt the beast and kill it, and then starts a wild dancing chant.
- Ralph and Piggy wish there were adults around. Ralph wishes, at the very least, that the adults would send them a sign.
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- There is an airplane fight over the island. The boys all sleep through it. A dead parachutist lands on the mountain next to the signal fire. Samneric, on duty tending the fire, think the parachutist is the beast.
- The boys call an assembly. Jack nearly ousts Ralph as leader, but Ralph wins the boys to his side by asking whether they all want to be rescued or not.
- All the biguns except Piggy search the island. They don’t find the beast, but they do discover Castle Rock, which Jack thinks would make a great fort.
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- The boys hike to the mountain. Simon predicts Ralph will “get back alright.”
- Ralph kills a wild boar with a spear. The boys do a ritual dance, and for a moment it seems as if they might actually kill the boy playing the boar.
- Ralph, Jack, and Roger climb the mountain at night. The wind blows and moves the parachutist, convincing them that it is the beast. The boys run.
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- Jack calls an assembly, then insists on a vote to make him chief instead of Ralph. Ralph wins unanimously. Jack storms off.
- Ralph and Piggy start a new signal fire on the beach. But while they work, all of the biguns except Samneric slink off to join Jack. Simon goes to his secret glade.
- Jack is chief of the new tribe of biguns. His tribe kills a pig, then stakes the pigs’ head on a stick sharpened at both ends and leave it as an offering to the beast.
- Jack’s tribe raids fire from the new signal fire on the beach. Jack invites everyone to his feast.
- Simon witnesses the killing of the pig, then the pig’s head, the Lord of the Flies, speaks to him: “I’m the Beast … You knew, didn’t you? I’m part of you?”
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- Simon climbs the mountain and learns the truth—that the beast is just a dead parachutist.
- At Jack’s feast, it starts to rain. Ralph mocks Jack for failing to build shelters. Jack whips the boys into the ritual pig-killing dance. Even Ralph and Piggy join in.
- Simon emerges from the forest to tell the other boys about the parachutist. The boys, now a frenzied mob, kill Simon.
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- Ralph and Piggy, realize that the “beast” they killed was Simon. When Samneric show up, all four boys claim not to have been at the feast when the dance started.
- Jack’s group raids Ralph’s camp. Piggy protects the conch. Jack’s tribe steals Piggy’s glasses.
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- Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric go to Castle Rock to confront Jack and his tribe. Samneric are captured. Ralph and Jack fight, but not to kill.
- Piggy insists on speaking. He holds up the conch and argues that it’s better to be sensible than savage. Roger rolls a boulder that knocks Piggy into the sea and kills him, and also destroys the conch.
- Jack throws his spear at Ralph, aiming to kill. Ralph runs into the forest. The tribe takes Samneric into the fort. Roger tortures them into joining the tribe.
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- Ralph spies on Castle Rock and speaks with Samneric. They tell him that the tribe plans to hunt him, and that Roger has sharpened a stick at both ends.
- Jack’s tribe hunts Ralph and sets the forest on fire to smoke Ralph out. The tribe eventually surrounds Ralph and forces him into the open on the beach.
- The huge fire has attracted a British Naval ship to the island. An officer is standing on the beach.
- The officer thinks the boys are playing games, and is shocked when he learns that there have been two deaths. Ralph and the other boys cry. The officer, uncomfortable at this show of emotion, looks at his warship.
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