lord of the flies: chapter 7

SIMON realizes that RALPH is thinking about home. He tells RALPH that he knows that he well make it back all right. RALPH thinks SIMON is batty, or crazy, and asks him sarcastically if he has a SHIP in his pocket.

On their way to the MOUNTAIN, the boys hunt for PIG. Ralph gets his first experience at hunting, and he enjoys it. He is able to get his SPEAR into the pig. JACK is injured slightly by the boar because he waited too long to put his spear into him. SIMON tells JACK to suck on the wound to make it better.

After this the boys get excited and start to pretend they are hunting a PIG. They use ROBERT as the PIG. the boys get too involved and Robert ends up getting HUNT. JACK and Ralph play it off as if it were nothing but a game. RALPH says that he once got badly hurt while playing FOOTBALL, or rugby. JACK says next time they should have a LITTLEUN play the pig.

It is getting late, and RALPH still wants to make it to the MOUNTAIN to restart the FIRE.MAURICE suggests that they should get back to Piggy. SIMON volunteers to go alone to Piggy and tell him that the rest won't be back until later. JACK and Ralph keep pushing each other to go up the MOUNTAIN in the dark. SAM, Eric, and the rest of the boys all leave Jack, Ralph, and ROGER by themselves. They are not scared, they say, but rather tired.

JACK goes up the mountain alone after RALPH implied that he was too scared to do so. He later comes down saying he saw something. ROGER scares the two of them go up to have a look and they see the dead man with the PARACHUTE. The three of them run, leaving their STICKS on the mountain.