ey convey the general fear. Increasingly the boys believe in the beast although Simon still refuses to believe that such a thing could exist. Ralph goes hunting with the others and decides that it is a bit of fun after all. But unfortunately it gets dark before they arrive at the mountain. Jack, Ralph, and Roger decide to climb the mountain, and ascend the cliff. When they reach the top of the mountain, they think that they see the beast, and run away. This symbolizes the engulfing fear which is overriding most of the boys. An arguement breaks out between Ralph and Jack over the importance of the hunting compared to the fire, and Jack attempts to be elected as cheif, but fails. He displays rather childish behaviour and says "I don't want to play with you anymore" and leaves, attempting to form his own "tribe." Simon goes to his place in the forest and has a strange encounter with the devil, who tells him all about how nobody can kill him because he lives within them. Jack's tribe grows in numbers and Jack proclaims that there is to be a sacrifice to the beast, thus appeasing it. Simon goes to the top of the mountain and finds toat the the beast that Sam and Eric saw was really the dead parachutist's parachute flapping in the wind. He runs down and tells the others, who are involved in the sacrifice at the time, carrying out a bizzare tribal dance in a wild frenzy. When the crowd see him, with mass hysteria they think he is the beast and club him to death. Piggy especially is ashamed because he was lured by the meat offered by Jack to join the ceremony and was involved in the clubbing. Now vastly reduced in numbers, Ralph's tribe is made up of Ralph, Piggy, Sam, and Eric. Jack's tribe's fire goes out when it rains and he steals Piggy's glasses in the night. Ralph thought that he had come for the conch, but this symbolizes the movement of power from the conch, to the glasses (fire). Ralph holds yet another meeting in which he decides to c...
