Chapter 2 and 3 short summary

So far, I have read three chapters, here is a small summary of two of these chapters.

Chapter 2 - Fire on the mountain 

At the start of this, Chapter Jack and his friends return from their exploration. Ralph summons the other boys, and Ralph and Jack agrees upon organizing a hunting party to be gathering meat. Ralph also tells the other boys that the conch shell will be used for determining who will be speaking at the meeting. While discussing things like that their trapped on an island, and that there might be monsters there, Ralph comes up with an idea that they can make a large signal fire on the top of the central mountain. With a little help of Piggy’s glasses and some dead wood, they are able to create a large fire. The fire quickly dies down, and Jack and his hunters volunteers to keep the fire going. With this sad attempt to keep the fire going, Jack and his hunting friend set ablaze a couple of trees. While this was going on one of the youngest boys on the island, manage to go missing. Struck by shame the boys seem to pretend that nothing happened.

Chapter 3 - Huts on the beach

With a handmade spear, Jack hunts a pig through the jungle, but somehow the pig manages to evade him. He comes back to the beach irritated, where he sees Simon and Ralph, attempting to build huts for the youngest ones to live in. As the huts are quite vital for their survival, Ralph is irritated that he is not able to complete them. He also points at that most of the boys are not doing any work, and accuses that Jack and his friends are using the hunting as an excuse to evade important work like building huts. While Ralph and Jack are arguing, they find out that they should go to the lagoon and take a bath to cool themselves. Simon takes this chance to look in the jungle alone. Simon helps the younger ones out and then he continues into the jungle. Eventually he finds a beautiful opening with birds and flowers. He just sits down and breaths in the fresh air. This is where the chapter end.

So far, this is all I have read, but as always, I say I do indeed look forward to reading more of this book. Please stay tuned for more updates on the book Lord of the Flies.