Chapter Eight

Summary
An assembly is called, and Jack and Ralph begin to argue. Jack asks which of the boys think he should be leader. However, no one raises their hand to agree with his statement that he should be chief. Angry and humiliated, Jack runs away into the woods. The rest of the boys are very dejected about no longer having a fire because the beast is on the mountain, until Piggy suggests building a fire on the beach. He has a lot more confidence since Jack isn’t there, and even helped collect wood for the fire, despite his asthma. Jack and his group of boys killed a pig, and left the head on a sharpened stick as a gift for the beast. Then they raided Ralph’s camp to get fire. Simon climbed the mountain to find the beast.