Plot Overview / Summary
In the center of a warp speed war, an airline evacuating a number of students from England is chance down over a left exotic region. Two of the young kids, Rob and Piggy, discover a conch cover on the seaside, and Piggy knows it used as a horn to call the other young kids. Once constructed, the young kids set about electing a chief and creating a way to rescued. They choose Rob as their chief, and Rob appoints another boy, Port, to be in charge of the young kids who will look food for the complete collection.
Ralph, Port, and another boy, Simon, set off on a trip to examine the region. When they gain, Rob reports that they must light a indicate fireplace to appeal to the interest of driving delivers. The young kids triumph in stimulating some expended wooden by concentrating on sunshine through the contacts of Piggy’s specs. However, the young kids pay more interest to enjoying than to checking the fireplace, and the fire easily immerse the do. A large swath of expended wooden uses up out of control and one of the newest young kids in the collection vanishes, presumably having used to driving.
At first, the young kids enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much time playing in the water and doing offers. Rob, however, gripes that they should be keeping the indicate fireplace and building sheds for housing. The seeker fall short in their try to get a crazy pig, but their chief, Port, becomes progressively preoccupied with the act of looking.
When a deliver goes by above one day, Rob and Piggy observe, to their fear, that the indicate fire—which had been the hunters’ obligation to maintain—has used out. Mad, Rob accosts Port, but the seeker has just come back with his first eliminate, and all the seeker seem gripped with an unusual madness, reenacting the follow in a kind of crazy show up. Piggy criticizes Port, who visitors Piggy across the face. Rob hits the conch cover and reprimands the young kids in a conversation designed to fix obtain. At the conference, it easily becomes clear that some of the young kids have started to become fearful. The lowest young kids, known as
“littluns,” stressed by problems from the beginning, and more and more young kids now believe that there is some sort of person or huge hanging out on the region. The old young kids try to influence the others at the conference to think rationally, asking where such a huge could possibly cover during the normal. One of the littluns indicates that it conceals in the sea—an idea that
terrifies the complete collection.
Not long after the conference, some government air carriers practice a challenge high above the region. The young kids, sleeping below, do not see the boasting signals and explosions in the atmosphere. A parachutist drifts to the planet on the signal-fire hill, expended. Sam and Eric, the twin babies liable for enjoying the fireplace in the evening, are sleeping and do not see the arachutist area. When the twin babies awaken, they see the substantial outline of his parachute and listen to the unusual flapping tones it makes. Considering the region person is at hand, they hurry again to the stay in fear and review that the person has assaulted them.
The young kids manage a looking trip to search for the huge. Port and Rob, who are progressively at possibilities, take a trip up the hill. They see the outline of the parachute from a range and think that it looks like a huge, disfigured ape. The collection supports a conference at which Port and Rob tell the others of the sighting. Port says that Rob is a coward and that he should be eliminated from office, but the other young kids usually election Rob out of power. Port angrily operates away down the seaside, contacting the entire seeker to become a member of him. Rob rallies the staying young kids to make a new indicate fireplace, now on the seaside rather than on the hill. They respect, but before they have complete the process, most of them have ended up away to become a member of Port.
Jack reports himself the chief of the new group of seeker and organizes a look and a severe, habit slaughter of a sow to solemnize the situation. The seeker then decapitates the sow and spots its brain on a sharp spot in the marketplace as a providing to the person. Later, experiencing the soft, fly-covered brain, Simon has a dreadful perspective, during which it seems to him that the brain is communicating. The style, which he imagines as from the Master of the Travels, says that Simon will never avoid him, for he is available within all men. Simon faints. When he awakens, he goes to the hill, where he encounters the expended parachutist. Comprehension then that the person does not is available on the surface but rather within each individual boy, Simon vacations to the seaside to tell the others what he has seen. But the others are in the center of a severe revelry—even Rob and Piggy have became a member of Jack’s feast—and when they see Simon’s shadowy number appear from the marketplace, they fall upon him and eliminate him with their simple hands and tooth.
The following day, Rob and Piggy talk about what they have done. Jack’s seeker strikes them and their few readers and takes Piggy’s eyeglasses in the process. Ralph’s collection vacations to Jack’s stronghold in a try to make Port see reason, but Port purchases Sam and Eric linked up and quarrels with Rob. In the producing challenge, one boy, Roger, comes a boulder down the hill, getting rid of Piggy and breaking the conch cover. Rob slightly is able to avoid a bittorrent of warrior spears.
Ralph conceals for the rest of the nighttime some time to the following day, while the others look him like a pet. Port has the other young kids kindle the do so as to smoking Rob out of his camouflaging spot. Rob continues to be in the do, where he understands and eliminates the sow’s brain, but gradually, he is required out onto the seaside, where he knows the other young kids will soon appear to eliminate him. Rob breaks in physical weakness, but when he looks up, he encounters a Indian naval specialist position over him. The officer’s deliver recognized the fireplace warp speed in the marketplace. The other young kids arrive at the seaside and stop in their monitors at the look of the specialist. Impressed by the perspective of this number of bloodthirsty, savage kids, the specialist demands Rob to describe. Rob overcome by the knowledge that he is safe but, considering what has occurred on the region, he starts to be sad. The other young kids begin to sob as well. The specialist changes his again so that the young kids may fix their composure.