1.)The conch shell is a major symbol in the novel. The conch shell represents law, order, and political legitimacy, as it grants its holder the right to speak and summons the boys to democratic assemblies.
2.) The sinister pig's head symbolized primordial chaos and terror. This was later used to over power the conch shell when the group of boys separate and things start to fall apart. It was also left as a gift or a sacrifice to the beast.
3.) Another major event was when the decided who the leaders or the people in charge would be. The choirboys vote for Jack, but the other entire boys vote for Ralph. Ralph wins the vote, although Jack clearly wants the position.
4.)Piggy's glasses was also very important. It was used to make fire. In the story jacks and some of the other boys decided to become there own group and steal the glasses from Ralph and piggy. Now they don’t have a heat source.
5.) Walking in the jungle they find a wild pig caught in a tangle of vines. Jack, the newly appointed hunter, draws his knife and steps in to kill it, but he hesitates, unable to bring himself to do it. The pig frees itself and runs away, and Jack vows that the next time he will not flinch from the deed. This is a major part because he is finally showing his barbaric ways and the needs to survive.
6.) In the beginning the plane they were on crashed on this island. They were scattered everywhere and some could not be found so they used the conch shell to make a loud noise for everybody to follow and meet up.
7.) There is one part in the novel where they mistake Simon as the beast and killed him. While running on the beach they thought it was the beast about to attack so they ran after Simon and killed him. They didn’t even burry him or any thing. They left him on the shore.
8.) There is one part when piggy is tiring to talk the boys back into friendship. Then someone on top of the cliff rolled a stone off the top of the cliff and dropped it on Piggy's head killing him. They all left and Ralph cried.
9.) In the beginning of the novel they could not find the pilot of the plane. Later in the novel they find out that he was the beast dead in the cave. He was in a strange position so they thought he was a beast of some sort.
10.) In the beginning of the novel they were all having fun playing in the lagoons with out parents or anyone in charge of them. Then they later realize that in order to survive they must get food, build huts, get along, and all the basics of life. They later realize they don’t work well with each other.
11.) An aircraft battle takes place high above the island. The boys are sleeping, so they do not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal fire mountain. He is dead. Sam and Eric, the twins responsible for watching the fire at night, have fallen asleep, so they do not see him land. But when they wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes. Thinking the beast is at hand; they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.
12.) The boys organize a hunting expedition to search for monsters. Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge, deformed ape. The group holds a meeting, at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting. Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office, but the other boys refuse to vote him out of power. Jack angrily runs away down the beach, calling all the hunters to join him. Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire, this time on the beach instead of on the "monster's" mountain. They obey, but before they have finished the task, most of them have slipped away to join Jack.
13.) Jack declares himself the leader of this new tribe, and organizes a hunt and violent, ritual slaughter of a sow to solemnize the occasion. They then decapitate the sow and place its head on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast. Encountering the bloody, fly-covered head, Simon has a terrible vision, during which it seems to him that the head is speaking. The voice, which he imagines to belong to the "Lord of the Flies", says that Simon will never escape him, for he exists within all men. Simon faints; when he wakes up, he goes to the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. Understanding then that the monster does not exist externally but rather within each individual boy, Simon travels to the beach to tell the others what he has seen. But they are in the midst of a chaotic revelry-even Ralph and Piggy have joined Jack's feast-and when they see Simon's shadowy figure emerge from the jungle, they fall upon him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth.
14.) The following morning, Ralph and Piggy discuss what they have done. Jack's hunters attack them and their few followers, stealing Piggy's glasses in the process. Ralph's group travels to Jack's stronghold, called Castle Rock, in an attempt to make Jack see reason. But Jack orders Sam and Eric tied up and fights with Ralph. In the ensuing battle, one boy, Roger, rolls a boulder down from the mountain, killing Piggy and shattering the conch shell. Ralph barely manages to escape a
torrent of spears.
15.) All night and throughout the following day, Ralph hides and is hunted like an animal. Jack has the other boys ignite the forest in order to smoke him out of his hiding place. Ralph discovers and destroys the sow's head in the forest; eventually, however, he is forced out onto the beach, where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a British naval officer standing over him. His ship noticed the blazing fire now raging in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at the sight of the officer. Amazed at the spectacle of this group of bloodthirsty, savage children, the officer asks Ralph to explain. Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is saved, but thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as well. The officer turns his back so that the boys may regain their composure.
