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Chapter 3. Summary. Jack trails a pig with a sharpened stick in the jungle, but the big escapes. Irritated, he walks back to the beach where he finds Ralph and Simon trying to build shelters
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Summary • Jack trails a pig with a sharpened stick in the jungle, but the big escapes. • Irritated, he walks back to the beach where he finds Ralph and Simon trying to build shelters • Ralph is irritated because Simon and himself are the only ones working on shelters while the other boys play. • Ralph complains that few of the boys work and that everyone acts excited at meetings about the plans they make, but no one does anything after. • Ralph then points out that Jack’s hunters have failed to kill a single pig – Jack intensely says they will soon have their first kill. • Ralph also worries about the smaller children and the nightmares they are having. • Jack however is consumed with catching and killing his first pig.
Summary • Ralph then turns on Jack and claims that Jack and the hunters only hunt to “get out” of work • Jack states that the boys need meat and the two become increasingly hostile towards one another • Hoping to regain their friendship they decide to go swimming in the lagoon but their resentment towards one another looms • In the meantime, Simon wanders through the jungle alone. • He helps some of the “littluns” reach some fruit and then walks deeper into the forest. • He enters a thick but beautiful part of the jungle, sits down in a hidden space and marvels at the beauty around him
Characters • Ralph • Important for boys to build shelters and keep fire burning • Jack • Important for him to hunt and finally kill a pig, obsessed with this • Simon • Very pleasant and helpful – only boy helping Ralph with shelters
Symbols and Important Elements of Chapter 3 • Building of the huts • Represents society’s need to have people working and being productive members • Choir hunting and children swimming • Represents what many will do without rules/consequences. They will relax and play. • Ralph and Jack’s argument • Foreshadows conflict between two characters • Ralph • Represents order and civilization • Jack • Represents primal instincts opposite of order • Simon • Somewhere in between Ralph and Jack. Represents kindness, helpfulness, being at one with nature