Chapter Summary 2

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When they return to the beach Ralph blows the shell to call a group meeting with all the boys. He tells them it is an island, and that there are no adults on the island. He tells them they need to be able to take care of themselves. He also tells them how they found a wild boar, and they were not able to kill it because it got away to fast. So he tells them now the hunters at least have something to hunt. He also says whenever the conch is blown it means everyone needs to gather on the beach for a meeting. He also declares that whoever holds the conch during the meeting is the only one who can speech and they have to take turns.

During this meeting Piggy tells them that no one knows there on this island and that it could be a long time till they are rescued. And then a little boy who has a brown birthmark on his face tells them that he seen a beastie snake like monster that was huge. Whispers go throughout the group as they all fear that there could be something like this on the island. Ralph and the other older boys calm them down and declare that there is no monster, and tell the little birthmarked boy that he had a bad dream.

Ralph thrilled with the idea of being rescued, comes up with an idea that they should put an fire on the mountain so if any passing boats or planes would see it and be rescued. They all go to the top of the mountain to try and figure out a way to start the fire. Ralph is mad cause everything they do won’t start a fire. Finally Ralph notices Piggy's glasses and uses them to start a fire. The fire fastly gets out of hand, it starts a bit of the forest on fire it finally goes out. And Piggy notices that the little boy who said he saw the monster is missing, and he also says right before the fire he saw him playing in the forest. Madly Ralph asks why all the names and everyone wasn’t marked down. Soonly the boy is forgotten.

Vocab
Tirade: a long angry or violent speech

Tumult:  Commotion of a freat crowd

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