Lord of the Flies Post II

Warning: If you haven't finished reading Lord of the Flies and don't want any spoilers, stop reading this!

Lord of the Flies from chapters 9-12 doesn't resemble the beginning of the story at all. It's cool though, for the most part, that is.

So, Jack has his own tribe now, consisting of Roger and some other littluns. Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric (or Samneric) are on their own. Jack's "base" is up on Castle Rock, which is pretty cool. Jack and his hunters may all be monsters now, but I'm kind of enjoying Jack's personality for some reason. He has this darkness inside him, anger, arrogance... it's sort of admiring. I'm not saying I favor these kinds of qualities! It's just cool to envision him like this.

I'm going to be quick with this and not ramble on too much with describing the events as I usually do. So, Jack realized that his tribe can't go on with just meat - he needs fire too, so they all ambush Ralph's tribe and end up stealing Piggy's glasses. At the end of that chapter, they're dangling from Jack's hands - ah! So cool. Anyway... later on, Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric go up to Castle Rock to retrieve the glasses back. It's not that they don't want Jack to have a fire, but that stealing Piggy's glasses is wrong. By the way, I've been noticing that Ralph is being more respectful to Piggy lately. Perhaps it's because he's starting to realize that Piggy isn't just a laughingstock, but a lot more than that. 

Back to the main scene... they go up Castle Rock despite knowing that it's dangerous. The danger is really Jack and Roger. They're the monsters. When Jack refused to give back the glasses, a battle had begun. Oh, what an intense moment this was. Ralph and Jack fought fiercely. My favorite part was when they were both breathing fiercely, pushing and glaring at each other. Though the book didn't say it, I imagined their fists clenching one another's as well. After some more fighting, something insanely tragic happens. Oh goodness, I don't even want to say it, but I guess I will. Piggy held the conch, which then was shattered. Afterwards, he was pushed off Castle Rock, falling forty feet down. That was the end of him. Why?!
He was so sweet...!

The conch is in smithereens. Piggy fell down. All authority is gone. All voice of reason is gone.

Samneric got roped in to joining Jack's tribe. Ralph is literally by himself. Hope seems lost. When he goes to Castle Rock later again to rescue Samneric, he gets caught and a huge fight erupts. The fierce, scary fight goes on for a while, when suddenly, something happened. It happened.
An adult came.

It was a naval officer. He and Ralph exchanged a funny "Hullo." The boys were finally going to be rescued. Jack came... and he started shaking with tears streaming down his face. Everyone started crying. What have they become?

"...Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy."

That is the end of Lord of the Flies. It's such a sad story, in my opinion. But it reveals so much about mankind. We do so many horrible things without even realizing it at times. We need guidance, a voice of reason, a leader. In this story, that was none other than a boy called Piggy.

Overall, I really liked this book. Best one I've read in a long time. I hope the rest of this year's books are just as good or even better than this.