Lord of The Flies Summary: A Comical Skit

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NARRATOR:

In the midst of a raging war, a plane evacuating a group of schoolboys from Britain is shot down over a deserted tropical island. I was the one that found them. I was a naval officer that received a report of a downed aircraft. When I got there the children’s words were confusing, but from what I could understand this was there story. There were two boys one of a skinny nature and one of an Oreo. Their names were Ralph…. And Piggy.

RALPH:
We crashed here some time ago and the only person I have been able to find is Piggy. Oh, how he annoys me and he is always wearing those dorky glasses. I’m going to stick by him because he is smart and I know I can influence him. Our only chance of survival is to find the others and work together, but where are we and more importantly where are they?

NARRATOR:

Ralph reminded me of myself back when I was his age. He was a natural leader. He would speak and people would listen.

Piggy on the other hand…

PIGGY:

Oh, dear, my asthma. I can barely run and I can’t even swim. Why isn’t my Auntie here? I really wish she was here… Oh, How things would be different… Ralph you better not tell anyone about my name!

NARRATOR:

 Honestly Piggy reminded me of French fries and a hamburger…. but I will give him credit, He was extremely smart.

They soon realized they would have to stick together in order to survive despite how much Ralph was irritated with Piggy. Soon, they discover a conch shell on the beach, and Piggy realized it could be used as a horn to summon the other boys. Ralph blew into the conch as hard as he could and the sound grew louder and louder as it echoed throughout the island. Boys started coming from every direction to find out where the noise was coming from. Once all the boys were assembled, they set about electing a leader and devising a way to be rescued. During the meeting Ralph accidentally slips the fat boy’s name is Piggy.

PIGGY:

I can’t believe Ralph betrayed me, I thought he was my friend! Why did he have to embarrass me in front of all the boys? He promised he wouldn’t call me “Piggy”, but he did, in front of all of them. I feel like an outcast. Everyone points their fingers at me and just laughs… What’s so funny anyways? Well, Obviously I’m a little bit chubbier than most of the boys, but that still doesn’t give them the right to be mean…

NARRATOR:

The boys choose Ralph as their leader, and Ralph appoints another boy, Jack the leader of the choir boys, to be in charge of who will hunt food for the entire group.

JACK:

Awh I can’t believe those stupid boys made Ralph leader! Ralph can’t do anything! Especially not lead. I mean look at me, I’m the leader of the choir bots back home what makes me such a bad leader now especially compared to Ralph.

NARRATOR:

Jack also had an accomplice named, Roger. Basically your school bully…

ROGER:

Jack is a stupid sort but I don’t mind working for him, so long as I get the chance to off some of the little’uns. I hate to admit it, but I love messing with people and irritating them. I do enjoy seeing a tear fall from a little’un’s face after I’ve taken something precious of theirs.I am bigger than most of the boys on the island I have a right to boss them around.

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Ralph, Jack, and another boy, Simon, set off on an expedition to explore the island.

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When they return, Ralph declares that in order to be rescued, they must light a signal fire to attract the attention of passing ships. The boys began to try and create a fire and finally succeed in igniting some dead wood by focusing sunlight through the lenses of Piggy’s eyeglasses.

However, the boys seemed to pay more attention to playing than to monitoring the fire, and the flames quickly engulf the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control, and one of the youngest boys in the group disappears, presumably having burned to death. Poor kid…

At first, the boys enjoy their life without grown-ups and spend much of their time splashing in the water and playing games. Ralph finally had enough of games. (Insert)

He exclaimed…

RALPH:
We have to maintain the signal fire and building huts for shelters! If we keep playing around we will never be rescued!

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The boys didn’t seem to care. Jack cared the least of all and only cared about hunting.

JACK:

I love hunting. Nothing else to do on this island but to hunt or be annoyed by Piggy Who cares about the stupid signal fire?! What’s gonna keep us alive is hunting for food, not keeping a fire burning. Who cares about Ralph’s precious fire when there could be a beast roaming among us.

NARRATOR:
He, however was unsuccessful.

About this time was the time I heard the news of a downed aircraft. I quickly rushed to get my crew and I over to there last know destination. We scanned the nearby islands for signs of life yet saw nothing, yet we continued searching. One day, on the horizon my ship passed by their island. Ralph and Piggy notice, but to their horror, that the signal fire—which had been the hunters’ responsibility to maintain—has burned out. Furious, Ralph accosts Jack.

RALPH:

Jack I can’t believe you. you know how important it is to keep the fire burning. you took all the boys who were assigned to watch over the fire to hunt. hunting isn’t important. what’s important is keeping the fire burning so we don’t miss passing ships. And guess what? we missed a ship because of you and now we can’t get home.

JACK:

No Ralph I don’t know how important it is to keep the fire. You dot know how important it is to go hunting! Just because you assign me and my boys to go watch the fire doesn’t mean we have to obey you. You should have been watching the fire yourself Ralph, while we were out hunting, and getting our first kill!

NARRATOR:

The hunter has just returned with his first kill, and all the hunters seem gripped with a strange frenzy, reenacting the chase in a kind of wild dance.

Piggy criticizes Jack,

PIGGY:

How can you expect to be rescued id you don’t put first things first and act proper?

JACK:

This is our first kill you don’t have a right to criticize me! (Slap across face)

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…who hits Piggy across the face. Ralph blows the conch shell and reprimands the boys in a speech intended to restore order.

RALPH:

calm down. calm down we can handle this in a civilized fashion. There is no need to act like savages. Don’t you remember that we are englishman. so, let’s get this worked out.

NARRATOR:

At the meeting, it quickly becomes clear that some of the boys have started to become afraid. The littlest boys, known as “littluns,” have been troubled by nightmares from the beginning, and more and more boys now believe that there is some sort of beast or monster lurking on the island. The older boys try to convince the others at the meeting to think rationally, asking where such a monster could possibly hide during the daytime. One of the littluns suggests that it hides in the sea—a proposition that terrifies the entire group.

Not long after the meeting, some military planes engage in a battle high above the island. That night Sam and Eric were responsible for watching the fire.

SAM and ERIC:

Let’s sleep nearby the fire so that we can keep a good watch on it. For it would be very bad if it went out….Ralph and Jack would definitely kick us off the island if that happened.
The two fall asleep cuddling with each other for comfort so that they won’t be scared of the dark surrounding them.

NARRATOR:

Sam and Eric were like Peanut butter and Jelly they could not be separated. Basically they were one person.

The boys, however, were asleep below and did not notice the flashing lights and explosions in the clouds. A parachutist drifts to earth on the signal-fire mountain, dead. Sam and Eric were sleeping and did not see the parachutist land.

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When the twins wake up, they see the enormous silhouette of his parachute and hear the strange flapping noises it makes. Thinking the island beast is at hand, they rush back to the camp in terror and report that the beast has attacked them.

The boys organize a hunting expedition to search for the monster. Jack and Ralph, who are increasingly at odds, travel up the mountain. They see the silhouette of the parachute from a distance and think that it looks like a huge, deformed ape. And they rush back down the mountain. The group holds a meeting at which Jack and Ralph tell the others of the sighting.

JACK:

I saw! I saw the beast! Big and hairy he was. We must hunt him down and kill it!

RALPH:

I saw something to, but jack let’s not go crazy. it could be anything and we need to maintain order and not go off on crazy adventures trying to kill this thing.

JACK:

“Who cares how long we’ve been on the island. We’re here now. And Ralph is chief. Because those awful littluns voted him chief. But that was before. Way, way before. I think we ought to have a new chief. Or rather, I should be the new chief. I could probably just start acting like chief and those stupid littluns wouldn’t notice a thing! But the problem would be Piggy. Ralph can be smart, I guess, but Piggy is just annoying. If I were to do anything he’d be the first to point it out and everybody would be against me. I’d've thought that by now he’d've gotten it through his thick one-eyed head that he ought to be afraid of me. Well that won’t matter soon. Soon I’ll be the chief – somehow – and I’ll have it my way and Piggy won’t have a say in anything and we won’t use that awful conch when we want to talk. That conch. That awful conch! That was what got Ralph as chief! Me and my choir – my hunters – we’re much more brilliant than him. Ralph – Ralph can’t even sing! He probably even believes in the beast! The beast is just one whopping joke. It’s just something that the littluns probably tell each other to give them the creeps at night. They think it’s some kind of snake-thing, it’s pitiful. If there were a beast I’d have it dead in my hands in a second. Simon said the beast is the dirtiest thing we know. Simon’s just stupid. Sometimes I even forget that he’s supposed to be one of my hunters. He has no qualities whatsoever of a good hunter and he spends far too much time with Piggy and Ralph. But I don’t care. Good riddance, I say.”

(Jack says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from office, but the other boys refuse to vote Ralph out of power. Jack angrily runs away down the beach, calling all the hunters to join him. Ralph rallies the remaining boys to build a new signal fire, this time on the beach rather than on the mountain.)

NARRATIVE:

They obey, but before they have finished the task, most of them have slipped away to join Jack.

PIGGY:

Life is tough and no one understands my asthma, not even Ralph. My recent asthma attack happened during our last meeting and no one even took and notice. I just feel really lonely at times. I miss my sweets and my old life, but I don’t think the same can be said about Jack’s troop. Its all a game to them, they don’t care whether we get rescued or not, just as long as they can hunt and kill. It disgusts me but what can I do? I can’t change a bunch of silliness. For some kids its just plain impossible to act proper. Most of the time, they are acting like a crowd of kids. What would adults think if they were here?

NARRATOR:

Jack declares himself the leader of the new tribe of hunters and organizes a hunt and a violent, ritual slaughter of a sow to solemnize the occasion. The hunters then decapitate the sow and place its head on a sharpened stake in the jungle as an offering to the beast.

SIMON:

“Ralph’s decided that one of us should go back to Piggy. I wouldn’t mind going… I quite like Piggy, he actually cares about our situation. I’m starting to fear that no one on this island actually realizes what’s happening to us. Well, I’ve just accepted the fear that I’ve had all along. Well, actually I haven’t lost all hope. I just know Ralph will get back all right. Even if he doesn’t believe me, I know. There is a long pause between the boys. They still haven’t decided who should go back to Piggy. Typical. I’ve volunteered and left so quickly they don’t have time to reply. The forest is quite different at night than it is in the daytime. The usually perfect trees look rather scary at night with its outwards branches resembling a giant spider. The Bee Orchid, so beautiful at day, seems so lonely and out of place. Just like me. I should be at home… I’m sure the rest haven’t even thought of why we’re here. Does anyone even stop to think why we were pulled out of class so abruptly and how our plane just happened to be shot down as well? Are we just immensely unlucky? Things aren’t easy on this island. There always seems to be something to make it more difficult. Insecurities form fears about beasts causing one major dilemma and now everyone’s worried and Jack and his choir are even hunting this ’so-called’ beast. Jack’s one to talk. He always starts off denying there is no beast and by the end of his rant he’s declared he’ll keep everyone safe by killing it. That’s another reason why I like Ralph. He’s very consistent and keeps to his word. I’m sure he’d never do anything so barbaric as go and hunt a pig with Jack. Ralph’s a great leader. Well, he’s better than anyone we’ve got on the island. Piggy, as smart as he is, hasn’t got the physical build of a leader and Jack… Well, Jack’s just wrong for the position. Ralph’s a great leader, the only problem is his followers. Oh well, they are still young.”

NARRATOR:

Later, encountering the bloody, fly-covered head, Simon has a terrible vision, during which it seems to him that the head is speaking. The voice, which he imagines as belonging to the Lord of the Flies, says that Simon will never escape him, for he exists within all men. Simon faints. When he wakes up, he goes to the mountain, where he sees the dead parachutist. Understanding then that the beast does not exist externally but rather within each individual boy, Simon travels to the beach to tell the others what he has seen. But the others are in the midst of a chaotic revelry—even Ralph and Piggy have joined Jack’s feast—and when they see Simon’s shadowy figure emerge from the jungle, they fall upon him and kill him with their bare hands and teeth.

The following morning, Ralph and Piggy discuss what they have done.

RALPH PIGGY DIOLOGUE:

Jack’s hunters attack them and their few followers and steal Piggy’s glasses in the process. Ralph’s group travels to Jack’s stronghold in an attempt to make Jack see reason. Instead Jack exclaimed…

JACK:

Tie Sam and Eric up! I’ll take care of Ralph!

ROGER:

I definitely hit the jackpot today. Jack asked me to spy on piggy and now will be the perfect chance to get rid of him. Oh look, there he goes. he is right near the edge of the cliff. Now if I can just pry this boulder loose. ah ha got it! haha got him now we won’t have to worry about him interfering in Jack’s plans.

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Roger killed Piggy and shattering the conch shell. Ralph barely manages to escape a torrent of spears.

Ralph hides for the rest of the night and the following day, while the others hunt him like an animal. Jack has the other boys ignite the forest in order to smoke Ralph out of his hiding place. Ralph stays in the forest, where he discovers and destroys the sow’s head, but eventually, he is forced out onto the beach, where he knows the other boys will soon arrive to kill him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees me, a British naval officer standing over him. I noticed the fire raging in the jungle. The other boys reach the beach and stop in their tracks at the sight of the officer. I’m amazed at the spectacle of this group of bloodthirsty, savage children, I asked Ralph to explain. Ralph is overwhelmed by the knowledge that he is safe but, thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. The other boys begin to sob as well. At last, they are rescued.