Lord of the Flies Lesson 10 and HOMEWORK 10

Mr. Jacobs 10
Lord of the Flies
Lesson 10

Aim: Who is The Lord of the Flies? (chapter 8)

CLASSWORK
READ the summary of chapter 8:
Ralph angers Jack by telling Piggy that even Jack would hide if the beast attacked them. In retaliation, Jack attempts his most serious mutiny yet, trying to convince the other boys to impeach Ralph. When the boys refuse to openly vote against Ralph, Jack announces his defection and runs off into the forest.
Simon suggests they all go face whatever's on the mountain, but no one wants to go. Piggy, glad that Jack is gone, suggests they build a signal fire on the beach so that they won't have to go up the mountain. While everyone gathers wood, most of the biguns creep away to join Jack. Simon disappears as well, going to his hidden spot in the forest to rest after his unsuccessful address to the group. Piggy starts the fire with his glasses.
Meanwhile Jack leads another successful hunt, attacking and killing a nursing pig and then impaling her head on a stick as an offering to the beast, coincidentally in full view of the spot where Simon sits concealed. Simon hallucinates, thinking that the head is talking to him, until he loses consciousness.
To get fire for a pig roast, Jack stages a theft of some burning branches from the beach fire and invites Ralph's group to the roast in an attempt to recruit them to join his tribe. Ralph tries to rally his group to his side but loses his train of thought when he tries to remember the importance of being rescued, causing them to doubt him briefly.

READ this analysis:
Jack strives to be a chief in some grand fashion seen in a book or a movie. Little does he realize he himself is fulfilling the role of the beast. Wrapped up in the caveman-like activities of hunting, face-painting, and chest-beating disguised as addresses to the assembly, Jack doesn't feel the need for rescue and so distracts the other boys from keeping the fire lit. He tells the assembly "Yes. The beast is a hunter" without taking a moment to reflect that perhaps the hunter is the beast.
Note that when the sow's head speaks to Simon, it takes on a male voice, becoming the Lord of the Flies. Interestingly, Piggy and the Lord of the Flies both give the same answer to the same question, although they each phrase it slightly differently. Ralph asks Piggy "what makes things break up like they do?" and receives the reply "I dunno. I expect it's him . . . Jack." Meanwhile Simon hears the staked head tell him, "You knew, didn't you? . . . I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?" The Lord of the Flies, a literal translation of the Greek word Beelzebub, symbolizes evil, and Jack is evil personified. (A description of the pig head can be found on p. 125.)

UNDERLINE, in this chapter, everything Simon says, and everything the Lord of the flies tells him.

WRITE a summary of the conversation between Simon and Lord of the Flies on pages 125 and 130-131.
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HOMEWORK #LF10
Finish reading the chapter.
1- What does the Lord of the Flies look like?
2- Who does Piggy say causes all the trouble on the island?
3- What happens to the pig’s body?
4- What is Jack’s argument against Ralph on 114-115?