What did the boys see on the mountain top? How did they react?
Jack, Ralph, & Roger saw a big ape looking like creature that is moving (because of the wind through the parachute). They are so frightened they run away.
Why is the action of the story increasingly taking place in the near darkness or in the deep night when only the moon and star give light? It is more scary and it is a symbol and it is a sign of fear.
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There are not enough of big ones to watch the fire and do the work.
Jack suggests a way to keep the beast happy. What is it?
He gave the beast the head of the pig on a sharp stick and stuck it in the ground.
In Simon’s strange encounter with the Lord of the Flies, what does it tell him?
The head of the pig, it tells him to run back to the other boys.
Who or what is the Lord of the Flies?
The head of the pig on a stake. Beelzebub (Lord of the Flies-Satan)
Why does Ralph take his group to the platform? What problem is Ralph having at this meeting?
Ralph is holding another meeting to see who is left for biguns. Ralph was forgetting what to say, he remembered they needed fire but he could not remember why.
What does Simon realize is happening to him? pg143