In the midst of war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down, crashing in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. One of the older boys, Ralph, meets Piggy, a chubby, intellectual boy, on the beach. They discover a large white conch shell; Piggy realizes that it could be used as a kind of makeshift trumpet, and convinces Ralph to …showed first 75 words of 4604 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4604 total…hiding place. Ralph discovers and destroys the sow's head in the forest; but eventually he is forced out onto the beach, where the other boys will kill him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a naval officer standing over him, his ship summoned by the blazing fire now raging in the jungle. Ralph is saved; but thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**