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Lord Of The Flies Chapter 9-13 Summary
Lord of the Flies
Chapter 9-13

In chapter 9 there were couple of circumstances of death through 9 to 13 and other thing was that Simon was wounded and he thought that he saw a beast but later he figured it out it was a dead pilot. Simon sees the dead pilot he starts to vomit. He was not feeling well.

2. Simon wants to tell everyone about that what he saw about a dead person's body on an island. And suddenly Simon realizes that group members have made an mistake that he talked about the beast in groups chaos. Simon dies at the end of the story.

3. Ralph and Jack were arguing and yelling at each other about the tribal. Also, they were also discussions about who would like to join the tribe and almost boys to Jack’s tribe. Now

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