Chapter Eight: Gift for the Darkness

Chapter Eight Summary
Okay guys get ready for a pretty heavy chapter. After Ralph, Jack and Roger go and find the beast they freak out and run to the camp. In the morning they tell the group about what happened, and basically everyone is scared as all heck. Jack stands in front of the assembly and basically calls Ralph out. He believes that he should be the new chief. His reasoning is that Ralph is scared, and he doesn't hunt so he doesn't really contribute to the group. When he does this, literally no one wants to get rid of ralph (not even the hunters) and Jack gets emotional. He runs off, his feeling hurt but he states that if anyone wants to come and join him then they can go and have fun and hunt. Once this is done Simon rushes off to his little happy place in the forest, where he gets hot and sweaty and all hallucination-ish and mentally ill. He watches Jacks group kill a nice big and fat momma pig, and they decided to stick her head on a stake as an offering to the beast so that it won't bother them. Soon the only things left in the small clearing are Simon, the Pigs head and the Flies. Simon has begins to talk to the pigs head, and it gets real heavy. The pig says he is the Lord of the flies and he and Simon begin to have a nice little chat. They talk for some time, and the Lord reveals some interesting things. He says that he is the beast, and that he is within all of the boys. This is the core of the story because it is stating the simple fact that the evil lies within all of us. The Ideology of these savages is the same thing as the idea of the beast. It is a creature that lies within us and it drives us to do evil things, at our core we all are the beast. And that is what the beast is saying.