5/1/2011
Lord of the Flies Blog Entry
The sixth chapter of the book Lord of the Flies is called Beast from Air. This chapter starts off with Ralph and Simon bringing a little one back to the huts before going to sleep. As the kids sleep, a parachutist from above falls down. He was most likely fighting in a fighter jet or something similar and had ejected out of his plane. As he was floating down, his parachute got caught in the rocks or trees or something so that he was just in the air. Once Sam and Eric woke up, even though they weren’t supposed to be asleep, they made the fire bigger and brighter. As the wind blew, the parachutist rocked back and forth and made a shape of a beast. Frightened, Sam and Eric ran back to the Beach to tell Ralph what they had seen. Ralph calls a meeting and everyone but piggy and the little ones set out to see if the beast exists. Jack leads the group the whole time until they get to a new part of the island, then Ralph is the one that has to go and explore the rest alone. After, he is rejoined by Jack and they remember their unity again. Meanwhile, the rest of the boys forget why they were there in the first place and they start playing around and throwing rocks and enjoying themselves. Then Ralph reminds them that they are there to hunt the beast, and so everyone but the hunters and Ralph go back to continue their job.
I like the description of the chapter and how it shows that Ralph is still the primary power over Jack because he figures out if there is a beast or not. Also it is the first appearance of the beast and gives foreshadowing that they will find out there is no beast.
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