LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING

Chapter 10:The Shell and The Glasses

Plot Ralph and Piggy

return to the camp after Simons murder

They discover that Sam and Eric and a few littluns are the only ones left at the camp

Roger joins Jack’s tribe and discovers that Jack is going to beat Wilfred for unknown reason's

Jack tells his tribe what there going to do and plans there raid on Ralphs camp for fire

Plot The boys at Ralphs camp

discuss what there going to do about the fire

Jack and his hunters attack Ralphs Camp in the middle of the night while Ralph and his followers are sleeping

The boys at Ralphs camp recover after the attack

Jack and the rest of the attackers celebrate the theft of piggy’s Glasses

SettingThe beach: “ Gazing up with impaired sight at the chief’s seat and the glittering lagoon. The green light and glossy patches of sunshine played over their befouled bodies.”(Golding,156)

Castle Rock: “Sitting on the tremendous rock in the torrid sun”(Golding,159)

The Platform : “Ralph climbed onto the platform carefully. The Coarse grass was still worn away were the assembly used to sit; the Fragile white conch still gleamed By the polished seat(Golding ,155)

Theme -The theme of this chapter is being civilized vs being savage, which can be found within the title of the chapter.  -When Jack, Maurice, and

Roger perform the night raid on the opposing camp, there are two objects that could be useful in the hut; the shell and the glasses.  -They choose to take one, the

only one they find to be of any use, and they don’t even consider taking the other.  -Jack and his tribe end up taking

Piggy’s glasses that have been used to start fires. They leave the conch because Jack and his tribe do not care for acting civilised

Character Development Ralph: The leader of the now smaller tribe of boys. He is now scared due

to what he has witnessed at the feast that Jack and his savages threw as well as Simons murder.

Jack and his tribe: The leader of the Savage tribe only satisfies the basic needs and urges of his tribe. Him and his tribe are now only thinking using their Id’s. Their superego seems to be non-existent at this point in the story. They seem to now only concern themselves with survival needs such as food. They no longer think about being rescued.

Piggy: the second in command in Ralph's tribe. Piggy is also scared due to what happened feast and watching Simon get murdered. Piggy believes that the savage tribe did not mean to murder Simon and that it was an accident “’It was an accident ‘ said Piggy suddenly ‘Coming in the dark– he hadnt no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it’ He gesticulated widely again ‘It was an accident ‘”(Golding, 157)

Samneric:  the technical third member of Ralphs group since they’re counted as one. Both boys awkwardly talk about what happened and are scared due what they saw.

Connections-Text to self: In the beginning of this chapter Ralph and Piggy, are discussing, or rather not discussing, what happened to Simon the night before.  They are using a psychological defense mechanism that everyone uses; denial, to try to forget the traumatizing event, as Ralph tries to deny the fact that Simon was murdered by trying to make excuses “P’raps he was only pretending “(Golding,157)

-Text to text:  In The Fellowship of the Ring, the Black Riders are constantly performing organized attacks at night on Frodo and company to attempt to steal a very valuable object  from them, in this case it’s the ring.-Text to World: Theft occurs in

many places, from break-ins to bank robberies.  People steal money or material objects with a high money value to satisfy their id, the pleasure principle. The hunters stole the glasses to satisfy their basic needs or id alike.

SymbolismThe shell is the conch, which still represents acting in a civilized manner, “The coarse grass was still worn away where the assembly used to sit; the fragile white conch still gleamed by the polished seat” (Golding, 155).  Ralph is the civilized leader of his

now smaller group and still treats the shell as democratic power, “I got the conch!” (Golding, 156). 

Piggy also treats it this way as he implies that Ralph can call an assembly “Piggy nodded at the conch. ‘you could—(call an assembly)‘” (156).

SymbolismThe glasses, Piggy’s glasses, represents living in a savage manner, in the way the hunters aim to use it. 

They raided Ralph’s hut at night, started a fight with those inside, and stole Piggy’s glasses.  They wanted the glasses so that they could start a fire in order to cook the meat they will catch so they can eat it. 

They are acting uncivilized and savage as they steal from the opposing camp and they will use what they stole to indirectly satisfy their id’s needs.

Thanks For ListeningBy Conner ,Denin ,Noah