Day: October 12, 2016

One of the most important parts in chapter six, I believe, is when the twins whose duty was to ensure that the fire did not die in the night both failed there task. When they awake in the morning they react to the ash pile almost as if it was the end of their time on earth and now they were to be executed.  Perhaps as though they had just been told that God is unreal and have no real answer for what it is that they should do next – almost like headless chickens, their whole ritual in a way has been disrupted.

In chapter 5

Piggy agrees with Ralph’s rational idea of life being improvised and how people spend most of their life looking at the floor and their feet.  Ralph calls a meeting and scolds the boy for breaking the rules and not keeping the groups’ rules as their principles.