Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Lord of the Flies - Chapter 2
- Characters
- Jack
- Rushes off to the mountain to build
a fire - gets everyone to
immediately follow him - natural
leadership - doesn't like Piggy for
being useless and complaining
- Ralph
- Follows Jack to the mountain and is annoyed at
Piggy for being so slow - tells the others how good
the island is
- Piggy
- Thinks that rushing of to the mountain
was a stupid idea - laughs at them when
their fire gets out of hand and then
realises that they killed the Mulberry boy
in the fire - gets bullied by Jack - " 'You got
your small fire alright!' ", "Like a crowd of
kids"
- Mulberry Boy
- Gets killed in the big fire on the
mountain - they all feel terrible but only
Piggy accepts the truth
- Plot
- Jack, Ralph and Simon come back and
tell everyone what a good island it is - "
' Wacco. Wizard.' " , " 'But this is a good
island.' "
- Ralph has the idea of building a
fire on the mountain to send
smoke signals so they can be
rescued
- Jack get everyone to
follow him to the
mountain and begin
building a fire, except
Piggy.
- Piggy argues with Jack
and Ralph because
Jack bullies him and
then he realises that
the mulberry boy is
dead
- A littl'un asks Ralph
what he is going to do
about the beastie and
the fear of the Beast
begins.
- Settings
- The fire
- "Their faces were lit redly from beneath."
- "whole limbs yielded
passionately to the yellow
flames that poured upwards
and shook a great beard of
flame twenty feet in the air."
- The dead trees (jungle)
- "Trees, forced by the damp heat,
found too little soil for full
growth and fell and decayed
early."
- The mountain
- Themes & Symbols
- Fire
- Represents hope of rescue
because they light it to make
smoke to get rescued.
- Represents destruction
because it burns out of
control and kills the
mulberry boy.
- Piggy's Glasses
- Symbolises weakness, especially in Piggy.