LOTF - Chptr 11 - Castle Rock

Lord of the Flies
Chapter 11 - Castle Rock
"Not Over Piggy's Dead Body"
Perspective - None

1 - In the beginning of the chapter, Ralph and Piggy are talking about Jack and his boys stealing Piggy's specks and the fire. Piggy tells Ralph to blow the conch and call a meeting. Ralph doesn't want to because he sees it as no use with just four boys and a few littleuns. Ralph eventually blows the conch and a small assembly begins. They then talk about how they will approach Jack and the boys.

2 - Piggy says that he is going to go to Jack with the conch in his hands and tell him that he knows he is bigger, stronger, doesn't have asthma, and can see without glasses and with both eyes. But Piggy says he is going to tell Jack to give him back his specks, not as a favor, but because its the right thing to do.

3 - Ralph says they should be themselves. Maybe sharpen up a bit, but they should just be how they always are.

4 - Ralph challenges all of the other boys to get to the top and to talk to Jack. It turns out that Jack is not even there, he is hunting, but he comes out of the forest while everyone else is arguing.

5 - When Jack comes back out of the forest, he had just finished hunting. He came out of the grass and trees with a headless, paunched pig.

6 - Ralph calls Jack a thief for taking Piggy's specks. This makes Jack delirious and starts a fight. Truculently, they begin fighting and approach each other with spears, and no spears. They'd been fighting on and off this whole entire chapter.

7 - After the final fight, Jack orders his boys to tie up Sam n' Eric. I think he did this, mainly to prove that they will do anything he tells them to do. They tied them up then the boys surrounded them while Jack and Ralph where arguing.

8 - While Piggy is talking about getting his specs back that it's the right thing for Jack to give him back his specks, Roger is up at the top dropping stones, throwing them at Piggy and Ralph. One hand was on the lever to knock the boulder of the top of the Castle Rock.

9 - I think that Roger is responsible for Piggy's death, not Jack. Jack was talking to Piggy and Ralph and Jack never said anything to Roger about letting the boulder fall. It was completely Rogers decision to let the rock go. He had been aggravating Piggy, and Sam n' Eric throwing stones at them the entire time they were there. There was no cessation in the rocks coming down. Piggy had been in the same spot, gripping on to his talisman or, the conch. Roger is the murderer, nobody else.