Fill in the blank spaces in the following chapter summaries using

the spare words in the box. Once completed, compare these

summaries to the summaries you have written in your booklets

and add anything you might have missed.

By William Golding Flies

Lord of theName

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CLOZE ACTIVITIES

Asthma Aunt Badge Bomb Cap Chief ChoirConch Fat Flames Golden Hair Hunters Jack

Kill Knife Navy Piggy Piglet Shell SimonSpectacle

s Swim Twelve Vote

The story begins with the boy with fair ______________ climbing down the rocks. A voice

behind him calls out for him to wait. This voice comes from a ______________ boy who

wears ______________ or glasses. The first boy introduces himself as, Ralph and the

second boy introduces himself as ______________.

The two boys are on an island with no grown-ups because their plane was shot down.

Ralph, who is ______________ years old, thinks that the pilot will be back to get the boys,

but Piggy tells him that he saw the part of the plane with the pilot in ______________. He

continues to tell Ralph that the passenger part of the plane was carried out to sea by a

storm. Piggy assumes that there must be other boys on the island. Ralph seems not to

pay too much attention to Piggy and runs through the jungle. Piggy says that he

shouldn’t run on account of his ______________.

“The sound of the shell”Chapter 1

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Ralph gets naked and goes for a swim in the pool. Piggy does not go because he cannot

______________; he wasn’t allowed to because of his asthma. Ralph says he learned how

because his dad is in the ______________. Piggy’s father is dead, and he was living with

his ______________. He tells Piggy that his father will come and rescue them once he gets

some time off. Piggy doesn’t think this is possible because the pilot had told them that

there was an atom ______________ and the people at the airport were all dead.

After Ralph’s swim, the two boys come across a conch; a ______________ that can be used

like a trumpet to call any other boys on the island. The ______________ was cream colour

with a bit of fading pink throughout the shell. After Ralph gets the conch to sound, boys

start gathering in front of Ralph and Piggy.

Many boys come, but the last group of boys is a choir. Each member wears a black

______________ with a silver ______________ on it. Their entire bodies are covered by a

black cloak, which “bore a silver cross on the left breast.” The boy who is in charge of

this group wears a ______________ badge on his cap. This boy introduces himself by his

last name Merridew although his first name is ______________.

After everyone laughs at Piggy because of his name and after everyone introduces

themselves, Ralph suggests that they decide on a chief to make decisions. Jack says

that he should be chief because he is the head boy of the ______________ and he can sing

a C sharp. Roger suggests that all the boys vote to see who should be ______________.

The boys ______________ Ralph to be chief. Ralph offers Jack control of the choir, and Jack

decides that the choir will be ______________.

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Ralph, Jack, and ______________ go on an exploration to decide that they are indeed on

an island. On their way back from the exploration, they find a ______________ stuck in the

creepers. Jack raises his ______________ to kill it, but he hesitates and it gets away. He

promises himself that the next time he has the chance to ______________ there will be no

mercy.

Beastie Branch Cold Conch Fear Fire GlassesHunters Island Last Match Mountain Pig PiggyRalph Rescued Rules Shelters Simon Six SmokeTrue Wood Younger

After the three boys - Ralph, Jack, and ______________ return from their exploration, Ralph

explains to the rest of the boys that they are indeed on an uninhabited ______________.

Jack tells the boys about the need for ______________ and the story of the ______________

that they encountered.

Chapter 2“Fire on the mountain”

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Realising that there needs to be order, Ralph tells the boys that there needs to be

______________ when speaking. The boy who holds the ______________ is the only one

allowed to talk. And the only one who is allowed to interrupt is ______________.

Piggy takes the conch and is upset because nobody is allowing Ralph to say what is

most important. ______________ tells the boys that nobody knows they are there. Ralph

tells the boys that that is ______________, but the island is terrific and they will have a

good time while they wait to be ______________.

Jack asks if anyone else has found anything. No one speaks, but a little boy of about

______________ years of age comes up. He timidly takes the conch and speaks. He asks

what is going to be done about the snake-thing; he later calls it a ______________. The

boys laughed at first, but later they sense some ______________. Ralph tries to make

everyone comfortable by telling them that an island couldn’t have a beastie.

Ralph suggests that making a ______________ will help get the boys rescued. Jack yells,

“Follow me,” and the boys rashly run up to the top of the ______________ and gather

dried ______________ to start a fire. Piggy is the ______________ to make it up the

mountain. When he arrives, the boys are trying to figure out how to make fire Ralph

doesn’t know how, and he stupidly asks if anyone has a ______________. Jack, on the

other, figures out he can use Piggy’s ______________.

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The boys discover that the fire was no good because there was only flame, no

______________. A boy suggests putting a green ______________ on the fire next time. Piggy

is outraged and grabs the conch and tries to speak. He thinks it was stupid to build a fire

haphazardly and not to think about building ______________ for the evening. He says that

it gets ______________ at night on the ______________. While Piggy is talking, the boys

realize that they have accidentally set the island on fire. Piggy makes Ralph realize that

some of the ______________ boys probably are scared because of the fire.

Bath Beastie Fire Forest Home Hunters HutsJack Kill Littluns Meat Meetings Pig Rain

Ralph Rescued Screamed Secret Ship Simon SprinterSubmarin

e Sun Tree Water

Jack is crouched down like a ______________. He is half-naked and trying to hunt a

______________. After he is unable to kill a pig, he comes out of the dark ______________

and sees Ralph and ______________ building ______________ for shelter. He asks for some

______________, which Ralph tells him is by the ______________.

Chapter 3“Huts on the beach”

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Ralph is disappointed in the way the ______________, or children, do not help him build

the shelters. Simon suggests telling them off, but Ralph shows his disappointment with

______________. He says they could have one, and they would decide to do something like

build a ______________, but five minutes later everyone would be off playing and not

helping. When ______________ implies that Jack is also guilty of leaving responsibility, Jack

argues that they all need ______________. Ralph antagonises Jack by saying that Jack has

yet to ______________ anything.

Ralph tries to argue that shelters are needed in case of ______________. But also they

need shelter to create a sense of ______________. The children are still afraid of the

______________, or the snake-thing, and shelter might help calm that fear.

Ralph argues that the most important thing is to get ______________. Jack has a hard time

remembering what that word means. He says that he would prefer to catch a pig first.

While Ralph is telling Jack to make sure his ______________ remember to keep the

______________ going, ______________ realizes where the pig must be hiding from the hot

______________. This angers Ralph because the way Jack ______________ when he made

this discovery made Ralph think Jack saw a ______________.

After they are done talking, they notice that Simon is gone. They assume that he is

taking a ______________. But he is not in the bathing pool; rather, he has escaped to a

______________ place in the forest.

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Apology Blood Castles Dazzle Dead Eric GlassesHenry Hunt Jack Meat Original Out Piggy

Punches Ralph Roger Sea Ship Simon SmokeStones Throat Youngest Transparencies

The chapter begins with three littluns, the generic title for the smaller boys, building

sand ______________. The three boys are Percival, the smallest and ______________ of the

three; Henry, the biggest of them; and Johnny, who is well built.

Chapter 4“Painted faces & Long Hair”

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After ______________ gets bored, he leaves, and Roger follows him. Henry becomes

interested in tiny transparencies, little creatures from the ______________. He starts to

become fascinated with controlling the movement of these scavengers. While Henry’s

attention is on the ______________, Roger starts to throw ______________ at Henry. He

misses him on purpose.

About ten yards behind him, Jack calls for ______________. He follows Jack and finds Sam,

Eric, Bill, and Jack putting ______________ paint on their faces. They are going on a

______________ for a pig. A problem is that Sam and ______________ are neglecting their

duty of the fire. This later proves disastrous because Ralph sees smoke from a

______________, but there is no ______________ for the ship to see them.

______________ and his crew return with a ______________ pig. They are chanting, “Kill the

pig. Cut her ______________. Spill her ______________ ” Ralph interrupts Jack’s glory from

the hunt to yell at him about letting the fire go ______________. Piggy also yells at Jack,

but this drives Jack to violence. Jack ______________ Piggy in the stomach and smacks his

head, which causes Piggy’s ______________ to break.

Jack offers an ______________ to Ralph for letting the fire go out. And then they begin to

start another fire, but they do so in a different location because ______________ will not

move from the site of the ______________ fire.

Later they start to eat the pig. Ralph, who originally wants to resist eating the

______________, eats it. Piggy brings on more humiliation by asking about his share of the

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meat. Jack tells him he didn’t hunt. But, ______________ responds that neither did Ralph

nor Simon. ______________gives Piggy his share of meat.

Beastie Boys Coconut Conch Cry Crybabies DiarrhoeaFire Ghosts Hair Hunt Jack Meeting Mountain

Piggy Ralph Rules Science Shelters Shorts SimonToilet Trees Triangle Water

Ralph paces, thinking about what he is going to say at the ______________. He has

decided that the meeting should not be fun; rather, it should be all business. Ralph has

grown disgusted with the way he has been living. He dislikes flicking the tangled

_______________ out of his face, and he dislikes how his frayed _______________ make him

uncomfortable.

Chapter 5“Beast from water”

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Before Ralph begins to talk, he thinks that a chief really needs to be able to think, and

the problem is he cannot think as well as _______________ can. Ralph then calls the

meeting. Almost everyone sits in the triangle except for Piggy who stands outside the

_______________ to show his disapproval.

Ralph goes over the things the boys have decided in assemblies and have not gone

through with. The first thing Ralph mentions is how the boys decided to bring water up

and put it in the _______________ shells, but now they don’t. And the boys go down to the

river to drink. The second thing he lists is the failure to build the _______________. He says

that all the boys helped on the first one. But only four boys helped on the second one.

And only he and Simon worked on the third one, which is tottery. Then Ralph complains

about how the boys are no longer using the rocks beyond the bathing pool as their

lavatory. It was the best place to have as a _______________ because the tide cleans it up.

But now the boys seem to go everywhere, which is disgusting because the littluns suffer

from diarrhoea. Ralph tells the boys if they are suffering from _______________ to stay

away from the fruit. Then Ralph says that they should die before they let the

_______________ go out again. Ralph’s last command is that they don’t make a fire

anywhere but on the _______________.

The group gets bored and restless with Ralph, but he tries to say one last thing; he tries

to talk about the _______________ and fear that has taken over the island. Once

_______________ is done speaking, Jack stands up and tells the littluns that they started

all this stuff about beasts. He says that the littluns are nothing but a bunch of

_______________ and sissies. He says that if there is a beastie, he will _______________ it.

After Jack is done, Piggy tries to convince the boys that there are no such things as

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beasties or ghosts and that _______________ can prove it. Then a littlun by the name of

Phil stands up and talks about how he saw something moving in the _______________. As

it turns out, it wasn’t a beastie; it was _______________ going to his secret place in the

forest.

Next Percival stands up. He is too timid to give his name. Percival starts to

_______________ and the rest of the littluns join him. Maurice finally tells the group that he

thinks the beastie comes out of the _______________. The boys truly get frightened when

Simon speaks up and says that maybe there is a beastie and maybe it is the

_______________ themselves. One of the boys interprets what Simon said as meaning that

there are _______________. The group basically breaks into chaos over the mention of

them.

Piggy grabs the _______________ and says that he didn’t vote for ghosts. Jack interrupts

him, and Ralph tries to gain order. But Jack says there is no need for _______________ and

that he is tired of Ralph always taking Piggy’s side.

The meeting breaks up and Piggy tells Ralph that if he gives up, _______________ will

want to hurt Ralph but won’t be able to. But Jack will strike out against the next best

thing, and that is Piggy.

Awake Bad Beastie Boulder Cave Claws EricExplosion Fire Fort Glory Jack Man Mock

Chapter 6“Beast from air”

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Parachute Plane Platform Ralph Rock Signal Teacher

Water Waxy Weapon Wings

As Simon, Piggy, and Ralph go to sleep, there is an _______________ in the air about ten

miles above them. Although no one is _______________ to see it, a _______________ is shot

down. And afterwards a man strapped to a _______________ comes down to the island.

Sam and _______________ almost let the fire go out. Once they get it going again, one of

them comments that had it gone out, Ralph would have been _______________. Then they

_______________ Ralph and a previous school _______________. As they are sitting by the

fire, Eric sees something and calls Sam’s attention to it. Once they both see the dead

_______________ on a rock, they go running to Ralph. They tell the boys that they saw the

_______________, and they embellish and say they saw the _______________ and

_______________ of the beast. Ralph, Jack, and Piggy decide what to do. _______________

wants to hunt it right away. Ralph wants to wait until they have the _______________

going. And Piggy wants to live on the _______________. Ralph suggests checking the

castle _______________, where they haven’t been before.

When they reach it, _______________ goes alone to explore. Jack shortly follows because

he couldn’t let Ralph have all the _______________. Once Jack sees the _______________, he

tells Ralph that it would be great for a _______________. Ralph thinks it is a _______________

idea because there is not much fresh _______________ there. While Jack explains how to

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use the _______________ as a _______________, Ralph realizes that there is no

_______________.

Chapter 7“Shadows & Tall Trees”

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Boys Crazy Dark Dead Fire Frog Game

Home Hunt Jack Mountain Parachute Pig Piggy

Pretend Ralph Robert Roger Saw Scared ShipSimon Spear Tired Wound

Simon realizes that Ralph is thinking about _______________. He tells Ralph that he knows

that he will make it back all right. Ralph thinks Simon is batty, or _______________, and

asks him sarcastically if he has a _______________ in his pocket.

On their way to the mountain, the boys _______________ for a pig. _______________ gets his

first experience at hunting, and he enjoys it. He is able to get his _______________ into the

pig. _______________ is injured slightly by the boar because he waited too long to put his

spear into him. Simon tells Jack to suck on the _______________ to make it better.

After this the boys get excited and start to _______________ they are hunting a pig. They

use _______________ as the pig. The _______________ get too involved and Robert ends up

getting hurt. Jack and Ralph play it off as if it were nothing but a _______________. Jack

says next time they should have a littlun play the _______________.

It is getting late, and Ralph still wants to make it to the _______________ to restart the

_______________. Maurice suggests that they should get back to _______________.

_______________ volunteers to go alone to Piggy and tell him that the rest won’t be back

until later.

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Jack and Ralph keep pushing each other to go up the mountain in the _______________.

The rest of the boys all leave Jack, Ralph, and _______________ by themselves. They are

not scared, they say, but rather _______________.

Jack goes up the mountain alone after Ralph implied that he was too _______________ to

do so. He later comes down saying he _______________ something. Roger scares the two

of them when he suggests it is a _______________. The three of them go up to have a look

and they see the _______________ man with the _______________. The three of them run,

leaving their spears on the mountain.

Beastie Blood Chief Conch Conversati Cowards Fight

“Gift for Darkness”Chapter 8

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onGift Head Hide Hunt Hunters Jack Meat

Mountain Piggy Play Ralph Rocks Secret SimonSow Sticks Throat Vote

After Jack and Ralph come back, Piggy can hardly believe that there really is a beastie

up on the _______________. Jack meanly tells _______________ to go check for himself,

hoping he will get hurt. Ralph explains to Piggy that no one could _______________ the

beastie. He says that even Jack would _______________ if the beast came after them.

Ralph goes on to say that the _______________ are nothing but boys with _______________

and that they are no good against the _______________.

Jack is insulted and takes the _______________ and calls a meeting. He first tells the boys

that they did see the beastie. Then he tells them that Ralph thinks the hunters are

_______________ because they ran away from the boar and the beastie. And third, he tells

the boys that Ralph says things like Piggy; therefore, he isn’t a proper _______________.

Jack then calls for a _______________ to see who thinks Ralph shouldn’t be chief. No one

openly votes against _______________. This hurts Jack, and he says that he is no longer

going to _______________ any longer.

After _______________ runs from the platform, Ralph and the rest behind sit depressed.

_______________ stands and suggests that they climb the mountain and face the beastie.

The group basically ignores Simon, and Piggy suggests what Ralph should suggest: keep

the fire going. Piggy says that they can keep the fire on the _______________ so that they

don’t have to go up the mountain.

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Jack declares himself chief and says that they should _______________. They come upon a

sow nursing her piglets. They decide to kill the helpless _______________. After Jack cuts

the pig’s _______________, he laughs as he flicks the _______________ from his palms. He

then wipes a bunch of the blood on Maurice’s cheeks. After he cleans the pig’s guts out,

he says that they will raid the platform for their fire. Before going they sharpen a stick

and post the pig’s _______________. This is meant as a _______________ for the beastie.

When Jack and his tribe raid the beach for fire, Jack is stark naked except for his belt and

paint. He invites the boys on the beach, including Ralph and Piggy, to have some

_______________ at their feast. This is very tempting to the boys. Simon comes out of his

_______________ place and sees the pig’s head, which is referred to as the Lord of the

Flies. He hallucinates a _______________ with the head, which tells him that he is really

the Beast. After the pig’s head threatens to kill Simon he fainted.

Chapter 9“A view to a death”17

Beach Beastie Bled Blood Boys Chief ConchDance Dead Fainting Head Hungry Hunters Jack

Kill Man Meat Mountain Parachute Party Ralph

Simon Spear Throat Tribe

Simon wakes up from his _______________ spell. His nose _______________, but the flies are

more interested in the pig’s _______________. He decides to go up the _______________ and

look for the _______________. Once on the mountain, he sees the dead _______________

attached to the parachute. Simon frees the _______________ lines from the rock. He then

looks at the island and sees that most, if not all, of the _______________ are on Jack’s end

of the _______________.

Because _______________ and Piggy are _______________ and curious, they go visit Jack’s

_______________. Once there Jack is sitting on a log. When he speaks, he waves his

_______________. He commands some boys to give Piggy and Ralph some _______________.

After the boys have eaten all that they want, Jack asks who is going to join his

_______________. Ralph says that he was voted as _______________. And Jack says that his

_______________ will protect the boys from the beastie. _______________ points out to Ralph

that he doesn’t have the _______________ and if he did have it, it wouldn't matter on this

side of the beach.

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During Jack and Ralph’s argument about who should be chief, Jack told the boys to do

their _______________. There is thunder and lightning. The boys are chanting, “Kill the

beast! Cut his _______________! Spill his _______________!” Out from the forest comes

_______________ crying out that the beastie was nothing but a _______________ man. The

other boys jump Simon and _______________ him.

Chapter 10“The shell & the glass”19

Beastie Bill Camp Chief Dance Day EricFire Glasses Guard Head Hours Jack LittlunsLog Murder Outside Robert Roger Samneric Scratch

Simon Stopped Tribe Wilfred

Ralph learns from Piggy that only a few _______________ and Samneric are left. The rest

have joined Jack’s _______________. Ralph is upset about the _______________ of Simon the

night before. Piggy tries to persuade Ralph that they weren’t involved in the murder

because they were on the _______________ of the circle. He also tries to suggest that

maybe _______________ was just pretending, but he is sure that he wasn’t. Piggy tells

Ralph that they cannot tell _______________ about the dance. Samneric, however, try to

cover up their involvement in the _______________ also. They tell Ralph and Piggy that

they left the feast early before the dance. But Sam somehow has a _______________ on

his forehead and _______________ has a split lip.

When _______________ approaches the Castle Rock, he is challenged. Robert, who is the

_______________, asks him who he is even though he can obviously see who it is. He tells

Roger that Jack has commanded that he challenge everyone. Roger tells them that he

couldn’t have _______________ him if he tried, but _______________ draws his attention to a

rock with a _______________ jammed under it. He indicates that he could have smashed

him. This really impresses Roger; he says, “He’s a proper _______________, isn’t he?”

Robert changes the subject and tells Roger that Jack is going to beat _______________ for

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making him angry. He tells Roger that the boy has been tied up for _______________.

Jack tells the boys that they still need to be careful about the _______________. He implies

that the beast came disguised as Simon, but that they did not know it. They still need to

offer it the _______________ if they go hunting. Then he tells the boys that they will go

hunting the following day. _______________ asks Jack how they are going to light a fire.

Jack tells him that they will just take the _______________ from the other boys again.

However, when Jack and his boys show up at Ralph’s _______________, there is no fire.

There is no fire because Ralph, Piggy, and Samneric have decided to keep the fire going

only during the _______________. Jack and his boys then decide to steal Piggy’s

_______________. They enter the shelter and fight. _______________ exits with the glasses.

Chapter 11“Castle Rock”

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Asked Assembly Blows Capture Castle Conch FightFire Forest Glasses Hair Jack Littluns Paint

Piggy Ralph Right Roger Sabers Samneric SowSpear Stolen Thief Wash

After Piggy’s _______________ are stolen, he urges Ralph to blow the _______________ and

call an _______________. Ralph does, but only Samneric, Piggy, Ralph, and a few

_______________ appear. Ralph is very upset that Jack has _______________ Piggy’s glasses.

He says that he would have given Jack _______________ if he had _______________ for it.

At the assembly, Piggy suggests that they go and demand that Jack give back the

glasses because “what’s right’s _______________.” Samneric say that they should put

_______________ on since Jack’s boys are all painted. Ralph suggests they should

_______________. Piggy suggests they should tie their _______________ back if it is

bothering them.

When Piggy, Ralph, and _______________ arrive at the _______________ Rock, Ralph

_______________ the conch and calls a meeting. Jack comes from the _______________

carrying a headless _______________ and asks Ralph what he wants. Ralph tells him that

he wants the fire and the glasses. He calls Jack a _______________. Because of this, Jack

starts to _______________ with Ralph using spears as _______________. They eventually stop

fighting. Piggy reminds Ralph that they are there to get his glasses. Jack tells his boys to

_______________ Samneric.

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_______________ releases the rock and kills _______________. Then _______________ throws

his _______________ at Ralph, injuring him. After this the rest of the tribe starts throwing

spears, and _______________ runs away into the forest.

Chapter 12“Cry of the hunters”

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Big Boss Climb Fire Games Hiding HuntJack Meat Officer Piggy Platform Ralph Rescue

Rock Roger Samneric Sharpened Skull Smoke Stick

Thicket Tortured Tribe Twins

Ralph decides that he cannot stay on the _______________ by himself. He starts back

toward Castle _______________. On the way, he meets the Lord of the Flies and knocks the

_______________ off the stick and takes the _______________ with him as a weapon. When

Ralph reaches Castle Rock, he talks to _______________, who are guarding the entrance.

They have joined Jack’s _______________ because _______________ tortured them. They

warn Ralph that the following day all the boys are going to _______________ him. They tell

Ralph that they are going to sweep the island and find him. They tell him that Jack has

_______________ a stick at both ends.

Ralph tells the _______________ that he will hide in the _______________ near where

_______________ was killed. He asks the twins to keep the hunt away from him. One of the

twins gives Ralph a piece of _______________ before he leaves.

All does not go as planned, however. Samneric are once again _______________ by Roger.

During this bout of torture they give up Ralph’s _______________ spot. _______________ and

Roger drop _______________ rocks on the spot and eventually try to _______________ Ralph

out with fire. Ralph runs out, trying to decide whether he should attack or

_______________ a tree.

Because the boys had set the island on _______________, a British Naval _______________

arrives to _______________ the boys. When _______________ comes out of the forest, he

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sees an officer. The naval officer asks who is _______________, and Ralph says he is. The

officer passes off what was happening on the island as a bit of “fun and _______________.”

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