“Couldn’t we – kind of – stay here? Maybe the beast won’t come near us.” “Have some sense. He makes Ralph seem vulnerable and unfit to be a head of a civilization of boys. Jack is questioning Ralph’s strength and mental standpoint at this time to make himself seem more fit to be a leader. He himself is still a child and desires to be a child again, not a leader of a new civilization. Ralph is having these flashbacks to his old life because he yearns for civilization and authority. “Even the sounds of nightmare from other shelters no longer reached him, for he was back to where he came from, feeding the ponies with sugar over the garden wall”. Yet all are asleep when it falls so the message is not received. “…a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.”(95)Ī sign from the outside world, war is still going on.
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