Jack,Piggy and Ralph are at the beginning are debating different mechanical and electronic devices that they could or should build one was a thought about a clock but that was quickly trashed when there was a comment about there being no metal available to make the clock,this quickly evolved into the idea of a sundial ,they considered sheathing sticks into the sand and letting the sun tell them the time.”we could make a sundial.we could put sticks in the sand”.

Ralph believes Piggy to be a bore and that his only true purpose is that he is fairly gullible and can easily be tricked .”Piggy was a bore;his fat,his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull:but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his legs”.

There was a ship that had been sighted and all the boys that saw the ship ran over towards the ship as they were amazed by what they were looking at they contemplated creating smoke but to no avail did it succeed as when the ship passed the island Ralph whimpered.”come back!come back!”.

Ralph