Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Author:William Golding [Golding, William]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi, pdf
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, General, Fiction, Criticism, Classics, Literature - Classics, Psychological fiction, etc., Action & Adventure, Boys, etc, shipwrecks, Survival after airplane accide, Islands, Regression (Psychology), Survival after airplane accidents, Nature & the Natural World
ISBN: 9780399529207
Publisher: Perigee
Published: 2003-02-15T05:00:00+00:00

himself.

"He'll come back. When the sun goes down he'll come." He looked at

the conch in Piggy's hand.

"What?"

"Well there!"

Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph. He polished his glass

again and went back to his subject.

"We can do without Jack Merridew. There's others besides him on

this island. But now we really got a beast, though I can't hardly believe it,

we'll need to stay close to the platform; there'll be less need of him and his

hunting. So now we can really decide on what's what."

"There's no help, Piggy. Nothing to be done."

For a while they sat in depressed silence. Then Simon stood up and

took the conch from Piggy, who was so astonished that he remained on his feet.

Ralph looked up at Simon.

"Simon? What is it this time?"

A half-sound of jeering ran round the circle and Simon shrank from

it.

"I thought there might be something to do. Something we-" Again the pressure of the assembly took his voice away. He sought

for help and sympathy and chose Piggy. He turned half toward him, clutching the

conch to his brown chest.

"I think we ought to climb the mountain."

The circle shivered with dread. Simon broke off and turned to Piggy

who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension. "What's the good of climbing up to this here beast when Ralph and

the other two couldn't do nothing?"

Simon whispered his answer.

"What else is there to do?"

His speech made, he allowed Piggy to lift the conch out of his

hands. Then he retired and sat as far away from the others as possible. Piggy was speaking now with more assurance and with what, if the

circumstances had not been so serious, the others would have recognized as

pleasure.

"I said we could all do without a certain person. Now I say we got

to decide on what can be done. And I think I could tell you what Ralph's going

to say next. The most important thing on the island is the smoke and you can't

have no smoke without a fire."

Ralph made a restless movement.

"No go, Piggy. We've got no fire. That thing sits up there--we'll

have to stay here."

Piggy lifted the conch as though to add power to his next words. "We got no fire on the mountain. But what's wrong with a fire down

here? A fire could be built on them rocks. On the sand, even. We'd make smoke

just the same."

"That's right!"

"Smoke!"

"By the bathing pool!"

The boys began to babble. Only Piggy could have the intellectual

daring to suggest moving the fire from the mountain.

"So we'll have the fire down here," said Ralph. He looked about

him. "We can build it just here between the bathing pool and the platform. Of

course--"

He broke off, frowning, thinking the thing out, unconsciously

tugging at the stub of a nail with his teeth.

"Of course the smoke won't show so much, not be seen so far away.

But we needn't go near, near the--"

The others nodded in perfect comprehension. There would be no need

to go near.

"We'll build the fire now."

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be

done they worked with passion.

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