Summary
Ralph and the rest of his group are trying to light a fire in the freezing cold air, but they realize the attempt is hopeless if they do not have Piggy’s glasses. Piggy advises Ralph to have a meeting to decide what their group should proceed to do next. Ralph blows the conch to call a meeting and the remainder of the boys who have not become one of Jack’s savages arrive on the beach. Soon they come to the decision to head to Castle Rock to try and reason with Jack and his tribe. When they arrive at Castle Rock they soon encounter Jack’s armed guards who demand they leave and threaten the boys with rocks nearly hitting them. Jack emerges from the forest with his hunters and their dead pig. Jack and Ralph go head to head with Jack commanding Ralph to leave his camp. All Ralph wants is Piggy’s glasses but Jack refuses to give them to him and they begin to fight. While they are fighting Jack orders his hunters to tie up Sam and Eric which angers Ralph causing him to lunge at Jack. Piggy tries to remind them of how important it is to have rules, but Roger launches a boulder down the mountainside, Ralph hears it coming and dodges out of the way but the boulder strikes Piggy killing him and shattering the conch he was holding. Ralph manages to escape without being killed but Roger and Jack begin torturing Sam and Eric forcing them to submit against their will to Jack’s authority.