Lord Of The Flies Chapter Summaries

Summary – Chapter 1 starts with a young boy named Ralph, searching the area around him to find other life after their plane crash landed on a deserted island. Ralph eventually finds another boy with the nickname "Piggy" and they realize that are no adults and that they can't find their plane. Then they decide to go to the shore to swim and Ralph tells Piggy that his dad will save them since he is in the navy but Piggy tells him that the pilot had told them that an atom bomb had gone off and everyone was dead which kind of foreshadows what is going on back home and why they were leaving. Once they finish swimming they decide to find other people by blowing into a shell that makes a loud noise and as they hoped boys started to come towards them. Along with all the boys, came another group of boys all dressed black robes and we find out that their leaders name
Didn’t you hear what the pilot said? About the atom bomb? They're all dead." (Golding 16). It made me think that the plane that crashed was trying to get away from something that was happening and maybe the reason for the crash was that someone tried blowing it out of the sky and kill the people on board. I also think that the "something" they were running from was a war between two countries and all the people on the plane were from a war-zone trying to escape.
Conflict: external- The one conflict in this chapter that stood up to me is the man vs. society conflict between Piggy and the rest of the boys. This conflict has been a man vs. society conflict just because Piggy is a little chubbier then the rest of them and he has asthma so he is a little slower. This effected Piggy because he felt that Ralph betrayed him because he told him not to tell anyone that people back home called him Piggy because he was tired of people calling him that and teasing him. It also made Piggy feel sad and it also made him feel the way he did at school back