Chapter Seven: Shadows and Tall Trees

Chapter Seven Summary
The entire group is just kind or around this one area. They are all either eating or doing some things down by the lagoon that some might consider "business". Ralph has a sort of internal crisis, where he realizes that he has become accustomed to the savagery of his environment. He has become a savage, and he wonders if he would ever be able to come back to civilized life. Ralph and Simon share a heart to heart moment, and suddenly a boar appears. Ralph warms up to the idea of hunting, but only after he hit the pig with his spear (right In the nose). Just after this some shenanigans happen with Robert, reenacting the killing and suddenly it gets very real. All the boys want that flesh, to actually hurt something, and none of them want to admit it. The group decides to go and hunt the beast, but only Ralph, Jack, and Robert make it to the top without running off. They see the dead man on the hill, and the wind causes him to sit up and because it is dark out they don't see that he is a dead man and they run off believing it to be a beast. This is were we leave our young group of savages.