Chapter Ten: The Shell and the Glasses

Chapter Ten Summary
This entire chapter is spent describing the boys as they go through the day after Simon’s death. Ralph and Piggy have run from Castle Rock where Jack rules with an iron fist. Ralph desperately and insanely tries to explain to piggy that they helped kill Simon. Piggy and Ralph decide to ignore the fact that they did help, and wait for Samneric to come find them. They are the only ones left but a few little kids. Most of the boys have joined Jack on Castle Rock, the giant mountain on the island. Ralph and the remaining boys go back to their own camp in the jungle, and the book starts to describe Jack’s camp. Jack is violent and is threatening Ralph’s “tribe”. Jack decides to tie up a boy and use him as a warning for Ralph and the others. Jack insists that Simon was the beast, but it is still alive. As the chapter ends, night approaches. Jack and two others raid the other camp, stealing Piggies glasses and fire.