Summary

The text you have to analyse is an extract from the novel “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding. The novel presents the lives of a group of English schoolboys between the ages of 6 and 13, who are stranded on an island in the Pacific after their plane crashed. The fragment in your textbook presents a rising conflict between Ralph – the leader, Piggy – Ralph’s friend and Jack – Ralph’s rival.

In the first part of the extract, we find out that Jack went hunting and took with him the boys who were supposed to maintain the signal fire in case someone could save them. As the fire eventually went out, Ralph accuses Jack of carelessness; he reveals that a ship has been seen and, because the fire was out, the boys could not be saved. Jack, although...