1. The naval officer arrives.
2. Simon's Death
3. Ralph is being hunted; everyone joins Jack & Roger.
4. Piggy's Death
I believe that the time when the naval officer arrives is the most important part in the last bit. Ralph is being chased onto the beach by Jack's tribe; they are pursuing him to kill him. He runs into the man and is instantly saved. They are no longer tribesmen with blood on their hands, but sad, scared little boys; there is now a real adult on the island.
The naval officer is also the symbol of hope; they can now go home, and integrate back into British society. He is their ticket home, their one way off the blood-soaked island. Even though both Piggy and Simon are dead, and Ralph almost killed, they are now able to return back to Britain. The murder spree is over.
The naval officer arrives just in time to prevent a death and save the lot of them. Though he doesn't know the full extent of what happened on the island, he knows they need to go home.
Cheers.
1 comment:
It's amazing how quickly the boys are transformed. Ralph goes from being the leader of all the boys to the wanted criminal to a normal boy who has been stranded on an island in the course of a day or two. He took charge when no adults were there, but when an adult came he instantly shed his leadership position. Yet we all do this, don't we? I know that if I'm doing a group project, I will be willing to be the leader, yet if someone else wants to be, I really don't care.
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