Blog 12- Witness Sheet- Ralph

Trial of Jack Merridew Witness Preparation sheet
Chapter 1: First Ralph meets Piggy. Then they discover the conch to call all the other boys. The conch works and all the boys come to the meeting place. Then they decide to elect a leader and Ralph wins the election. Jack is jealous that he was not chosen to be the leader.. At the end of the chapter Ralph, Jack and Simon head towards the mountain to see if the place is really an island or not.
Chapter 2: The chapter starts with them returning from there exploration. They now know that there are no adults and it is for sure an island. While exploring they find a pig and decide that they need some hunters to get food while they are on the island. Ralph says that Jack and the choir should be the hunters and that Jack could be the leader of them. They also establish that who ever has the conch during meetings gets to talk and everyone else has to listen until that person is done talking and passes the conch on. Then a small boy with a birthmark says that there is a beast on the island and Ralph argues that there isn't one, but jack sees this as an opportunity to take advantage of the little ones and agrees that there is a beast. Then Ralph says that they should start a signal fire and everyone runs up the mountain leaving Ralph and Piggy behind. They begin to run after the rest of the group and when they get to the top Jack takes Piggy's glasses and lights the fire it ignites and quickly grows and lights some of the forest on fire killing the boy with the birthmark.
Chapter 3: The chapter begins with jack hunting in the forest while Simon and Ralph work on building shelters. This already shows Jacks carelessness and his point of view on life on the island. Jack takes the whole thing as a game, where as Ralph takes it very seriously.
Chapter 4: In this chapter Jack becomes obsessed with killing pigs. Because he is so obsessed with killing a pig he takes all of the hunters and leaves no one to watch the fire and it goes out. Right then a ship passes by. Ralph is furious that they were not rescued but jack is happy because he caught a pig.
Chapter 5: In this chapter Ralph calls a meeting to go over the rules again and make sure everyone is loyal. Ralph also addresses the beast and this time Jack agrees that it is not real. Some of the litluns believe that the beast comes from the water.
Chapter 6: This is the chapter where The parachutists plane gets shot down and he lands on the island and Sam n' Eric see it at night and don't know it is the parachutist so they think it is the beast. They go and tell everyone that the beast is up there and the fire goes out because nobody will go up there. At the end of this chapter the boy set out to look for the beast on the island.
Chapter 7: While they are on the way to find the beast they find pig droppings and decide to follow it. Then a wild boar jumps out and Ralph stas it in the nose while everyone else is hiding. He is very excited that he stabbed it and it shows he is a good hunter. This makes Jack jealous and he cuts himself and tells evryone it was the pig to make himself look cool. Then the boys start to act out the pig hunt and robert gets into the middle of the circle and pretends to be the boar. After there game is over it begins to get dark and Ralph suggests that they go on anyways but nobody wants to except for Jack and Roger. They move on to the top of the mountain and see the beast. They are terrified and run back down the hill.
Chapter 8: The next morning they telll all the boys about the beast and explain it as an ape like thing. In this chapter Jack blows the conch to call the meeting and then during the meeting claims that Ralph is a coward. Then Jack asks for the boys to vote Ralph out of power but none of them vote against Ralph and Jack is furious so he leaves the camp and starts his own tribe. At the end of the chapter Simon goes to his glade and finds the lord of the flies sitting there on the stick sharpened at both ends.
Chapter 9: IN this chapter simon wakes up in his glade after talking to the lotf and then goes up the mountain to see if there really is a beast. When he gets to the top he sees the parachutist and he heads back down to tell everyone that there is no beast. When he gets down to where they are feasting on the pig they think that Simon is the beast and they attack him and kill him.
Chapter 10: The next morning Ralph and Piggy discuss what happened last night since they were there and decide that they aren't going to tell Sam n' Eric about there involvment in Simon's death.
Chapter 11: IN this Chapter Ralph's tribe gets raided by Jack and they steal Piggy's glasses so that they can have fire all the time. Piggy goes to reason with them but that idea is quickly ruined when Jack and Ralph get into a fight. Then Roger drops a boulder on Piggy and he dies.
Chapter 12: Ralph hides in the jungle and Jacks tribe tries to find him so that they can kill him. They try many different ways to get him out like rolling boulders at him and trying to smoke him out of his hiding place they manage to catch the island on fire but they still can't catch Ralph at the end of the chapter Ralph stumbles out on to the beach and there is a naval officer standing there. Jacks tribe emerges at almost the same time and they all stop. Then they get on the boat and leave the island.