Lord of Flies Chapter 10 by Sam Forman

Chapter Ten begins in the morning after the murdering of Simon. The people are confused and many are in denial of the previous night unreal, crazy dance. During the event of the dance the tribe had mistaken Simon as the Beast and in all of the excitement, almost all of the people helped in stabbing Simon to death. At the beginning of the chapter Ralph and Piggy are discussing the past night and what had happened. The continued on denying what had happened the night before and said they left early where in fact both of them intervene in the dance event and the killing of Simon. Through the discussion between them as Ralph brings up the death of Simon Piggy can't bring himself up to accepting it and Ralph knew it had happened and justified it as a crazy event. Later, Piggy finds himself talking about the frenzied dance with SamnEric and what had happened, with oblivious action they said they left early, and Piggy said the same thing. In Chapter 10, Jack is becoming a crueler ruler and could be almost classified as a dictator, for no apparent reason Jack tied up a littun' named Wilfred and beaten him. Ralph used deception (not inception) with his tribe and told his confused and unsure followers that they had beaten but not killed the beast the night before. He stated that the "beast" had come in secretly and killed one of the tribe members the night before. Ralph's tribe was making a decision to let the fire continue, but decided to let it go out in the night and collect wood instead. Meanwhile, Jack is definitely showing more signs of evil, and creates a plan to steal Piggy's glasses, the power of fire and the slight disablement of Piggy. Jack was not always an evil person, and at the beginning of the story he was the choir boy who could sing High C and now he is a savage, and has been transformed under the influence of the situation and environment. Similar to earlier in the story, once Maurice stomps on Henry's sandcastle, Roger go as does he same. This is an important idea in the story, and as Phillip Zimbaro said, "It is not the bad apples in the good barrel, it the good apples in the bad barrel." The situation is causing them to act like that, and they were not bad kids to start.