Lord of the Flies Timeline

After a large group of teenage, and younger, boys crash landed on a deserted island, they all got separated with no adults surviving. 2 boys, Ralph and Piggy find a conch. Ralph then blows the conch, when everybody hears it they come to their location. After everybody comes they decide that they need a leader, and elect Ralph to be their chief.

After their meeting to decide who would be chief, Ralph decides to take a couple of people with him to explore the island, namely Jack and Simon. They find a mountain and climb to the top of it, and confirmed for themselves that they were on an island, with nobody else on it.

When the three that went on an adventure come back, Ralph calls a meeting to tell everybody what they saw. After discusses, Ralph determines that they need to be rescued. He comes up with the idea of having a smoke signal so ships on the sea can see that there is people on the island that need to be rescued. Ralph suggests that there should be a fire on the mountain-top, to which everybody starts running to there, cheering "fire" and not listening to what Ralph says next.

After creating a fire on the top of the mountain, they add branches that were green, most likely just branches with a lot of leaves. This was to make the fire produce more smoke. However, this made the fire larger, too large in fact, it spread into the forest quite a ways before the fire put itself out. One of the young boys wasn't with them on the mountain top and was never seen again after this event.

A few days had passed, shelters were starting to get built, however, hardly anybody was helping. Jack came out of the forest and met Ralph who was building up one of the Shelters. They then argued. Ralph thought it was important that the shelters get done for when it rains and fire on the mountain in case a ship comes along. Jack wanted to hunt, with his hunters (previously choir members), half of which were supposed to be keeping up the fire for a signal.

Everybody was doing their own thing, when somebody on the beach spotted a ship far out in the distance on the ocean. Ralph then spotted after this person started shouting about it. Ralph then wondered what was happening about the smoke signal because it wasn't big enough to be seen. He then rushed up into the mountain and told the people up there that there was a ship. Jack then came from his hunting trip and argued with Ralph some more. By the time they were done the ship was gone.

After Jack and Ralph's argument, Ralph decided to call a meeting, which would be in the evening. At this meeting he explained that there needed to be more order, and that the place should be a bit cleaner. But the most important thing was that the fire needed to be going at all times for a smoke signal, or else they would never be rescued.

Another part of the meeting that Ralph had just held, was that one of the young boys had seen something terrifying. A beast of some kind. He didn't know what it was though. The older boys weren't convinced that there was a beast on the island, so they talked about possible things that could be a beast.

Two boys, who are twins, are up on the mountain tending to the fire. Their names are Sam and Eric. While tending to the fire they see something moving towards them slowly in the dark. They get terrified of this and run back to where everybody is. After, Piggy goes and wakes up Ralph from his sleep, telling him to call a meeting. At this meeting Sam and Eric tell about there experience of the Beast. How they saw it, and then how the Beast chased them through the forest.

At the meeting Ralph, Jack, Jack's hunters, and some others decide to go and explore the other side of the island to see if they can find this beast and take it down. They come to an area that is very rocky, the color of the rocks is red. There is also a cliff. They do something climbing and adventuring and spot a sort of cave, but don't go farther. Ralph says that they should go back because the fire isn't going, and there could be a ship out on sea. Even though Jack doesn't want to at first.

Ralph decides to go hunting with everybody else, and then later exploring. The only people left at there camp are Piggy and the young kids. While hunting Ralph hits a boar with his spear and Jack gets an injury. Then everybody replays what just happens and has a good laugh. Afterwards they get serious again and go towards the mountain and the rocky area they named Castle Rock.

When they decide to go off on this adventure after their attempt at hunting, they realize that they might not get back after dark. So, they argue that they should go tell Piggy, or if they should not go and tell Piggy. Eventually Jack says that he is just going to go and continue to adventure, the Ralph agrees, but was astonished himself that he agreed. Roger then came along with them.

Ralph, Jack, and Roger go up the mountain together, while it is quickly getting darker and darker. While traveling they get spooked over and over again by noises that they hear in the forest. They are going through the burnt part of the forest, where there is plenty of ash. Eventually they see a hump where there shouldn't be a rock or boulder and hear a chattering noise. This ends up scaring them, so they go back.

After coming back from their night adventure, they call meeting, Piggy wonders if they are safe on the island. Ralph says that if something comes they will just have to hide. He also mentions that they have to have a fire or else they will die eventually on the island. Jack doesn't really care about the fire and ends up having another argument with Ralph. Then Jack bolts into the forest saying that he's leaving and never coming back.

After the meeting Piggy starts noticing that a lot of the big kids have gone off. Ralph determines that they probably went with Jack. They also determine that they can't have a fire on the mountain anymore, and will just have to have a small fire down on the beach. The only big kids left are Ralph, Piggy, Sam, Eric, Simon, and all of the little kids.

Jack, his hunters and some of the big kids that followed him, make a tribe. Jack says that he will be the chief and that they will hunt. They will also completely forget about the Beast, ignoring it. Jack mentions that they will most likely go to Castle Rock for their camp. Then they go into the forest to hunt for a boar, to have a feast with it to get others to join his tribe.

Jack, and the others that made a tribe, come along a boar with some piglets, its babies, and decide to hunt it. They chase it through the forest and eventually take it down. They leave the head for the Beast. Then somebody asks what they're going to do about a fire. Jack decides that they will go raid Ralph and the others for their fire.

Simon had stayed hidden, but had watched the Tribe's hunt. He stayed hidden in the bushes but stared at the boar's head that they had left behind. While staring at it, it seemed to speak to him, telling him to go back, but he didn't. While sitting there, it was then that he realized who the Beast was.

While Ralph and Piggy are at the fire, they talk a bit. Ralph wants to know why they, that left, can't understand that without a fire, they won't be rescued. During this, Jack and two others come and take some wood from their fire for their own. Jack tells them that they will be having a feast and that they can come and join him if they wish.

Ralph, Piggy, Sam, Eric, and Simon, all decide to go to the feast that Jack is holding, the young kids come along too. They are given some meat from the boar that they hunted. Ralph tries to mention that the fire is important, but then him and Jack get into another argument about it. A storm is also brewing as this is happening.

Once it starts raining, Ralph mentions that they have no shelters. So, Jack tells everybody to dance, to which everybody does except Ralph, Piggy, Sam, Eric, and Simon. The dancers start chanting, "Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood!" During this Simon tries to tell them about something about a dead man. The beast, also says something similar. The beast was in the center of the circle, then ran out, over the rocks, and collapsed on the shore. The tide than took the body, of Simon.

Ralph, Sam, Eric, Piggy and the young kids are the only ones left of their group. They talk about the feast last night and how it was spooky and they would have rather not have been there. It was something that they didn't want to have experienced, so they just say that it was an accident.

Roger and Robert have a small conversation about what is happening in their tribe. Jack then comes and tells everybody that they will hunt tomorrow and have another feast again. However, they needed a fire, so they made a plan to go get some again from Ralph and the others.

Ralph and the others know that they need a fire so they can be rescued. They go get some food and talk about how they can't keep the fire going all the time with just them. So they decide to just not have the fire going through the night. When the are about to settle down for the night they hear things moving outside of their shelters.

What Ralph and the others heard outside of their shelters came inside of them. It was Jack and some of his savages (or what members of his tribe were called), they had come for fire, but there wasn't one lit. So he just went in and fought Ralph and the others. They got several wounds from the fight, and Jack had taken Piggy's glasses from him and then left. Afterwards they talk about the fight and how they needed to go get Piggy's glasses back from them.

To get Piggy's glasses back and to tell Jack and his savages a thing, they went to him, with some wooden spears they made. When they get their, they get stopped by the watchman of the tribe. Jack comes out and asked them what they want. Ralph tells them that they want the glasses back, but Jack refuses at first.

Ralph and Jack get into a fight, they hit each other with their spears. After multiple times of fighting, stopping, and trying to get back Piggy's glasses, Jack tells his savages to go and grab Sam and Eric, which they do the second time. Ralph gets mad at this and charges at Jack. They fight for a bit before Piggy interrupts trying to stop them. Piggy then gets into the fight, and gets killed. Ralph fights Jack, gets injured and decides to run. With Sam and Eric now part of the tribe.

After the big fight, Ralph went and hid somewhere. He thought there for a bit before deciding that taking care of his injuries would have to wait for later. After getting some fruit for food, he goes back to the tribe in the evening, stealthily to Sam and Eric.

Ralph crawls up to Sam and Eric who are on watch, wanting to take them back with him. However they say that they better stay. Ralph and them then hear somebody coming. Sam and Eric tells him the tribe's plan of going in a line across the island to find and kill him. He mentions that he'll go and hide in a thicket near the tribe in hope of them not finding him. He does, crawling into a space that nobody else could crawl into, then he sleeps through the night.

In the morning, Ralph wakes up to talking outside the thicket he is in. He figures out that Sam and Eric must have been forced into telling Jack that he was in there. Jack and his savages tried to get him to come out, but Ralph didn't, and when one savage stuck their spear through the thicket, Ralph dodged. He then stuck his spear out and hit somebody with it. After the savages tried more, he crawled to a different area, but the savages kept track of him.

While Ralph was in a new spot in the thicket, a savage started a fire and lit the forest, to get him to come out. Ralph realized what was happening and started to run. The tribe chased him through the burning forest. Ralph kept trying to decide if it was better to run or break their line, to hide or climb a tree. He found another thicket to hide in, however a savage spotted him, and he just kept running, towards where his camp had been, he saw one of the shelter go up in flames.

Ralph saw an officer, with a ship, on the beach while running away, and came up to him. The officer mentioned that he had seen the smoke from the forest fire, and the officer wondered if they were having a war or something. Ralph only nodded. The officer asked if there were any dead, Ralph said 2, and that they were gone. The savages had come into view. The officer asked if there were any grownups, Ralph said no. Finally the officer found out they were all British boys. Then they were saved.