LordoftheFlies

The slanting sticks of sunlight were lost among the branches. At length he came to a clearing in the forest where rock prevented ...

Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn de ...

Ralph moaned faintly. Tired though he was, he could not relax and fall into a well of sleep for fear of the tribe. Might it not ...

invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and poli ...

them and was momentarily eclipsed by some movement. Ralph edged forward, feeling his way over the uneven surface as though he we ...

"For hunting. Like in the war. You know―dazzle paint. Like things trying to look like something else―" He twisted in the urgency ...

"―we thought―" Memory of their new and shameful loyalty came to them. Eric was silent but Sam tried to do his duty. "You got to ...

swung through the air and jigged toward Bill. Bill started up laughing; then suddenly he fell silent and blundered away through ...

"Who? Jack?" "Oh no―" They bent to him and lowered their voices. "Push off, Ralph―" "―it's a tribe―" "―they made us―" "―we could ...

Piggy shook his head. "You have to have a lot of metal things for that," he said, "and we haven't got no metal. But we got a sti ...

"We're going to spread out in a line across the island―" "―we're going forward from this end―" "―until we find you." "We've got ...

his stomach and pretended not to see. The mirages had died away and gloomily he ran his eye along the taut blue line of the hori ...

"For your own good." "Keep away. As far as you can." "Won't you come with me? Three of us―we'd stand a chance." After a moment's ...

He turned round and peered up at the mountain. Ralph continued to watch the ship, ravenously. Color was coming back into his fac ...

Silence above. He sounded silly to himself. He lowered himself down the rock. "What are you going to do―?" From the top of the t ...

By the time Ralph had reached the landward end of the scar he was using precious breath to swear. He did desperate violence to h ...

and he ceased to think of them. He felt with his hands and found cool, delicate fronds backed against the thicket. Here then was ...

Simon and Maurice arrived. Ralph looked at them with unwinking eyes. Simon turned away, smearing the water from his cheeks. Ralp ...

Castle Rock, distant and unmenacing. He composed himself triumphantly, to hear the sounds of the hunt dying away. Yet no one mad ...

Jack, his face smeared with clays, reached the top first and hailed Ralph excitedly, with lifted spear. "Look! We've killed a pi ...