This chapter starts off after the group of big ‘uns went to visit the beast. Jack takes the conch shell from Ralph and declares a meeting and calling Ralph an unfit ruler since he was afraid to face the Beast. Jack holds it up to a vote among the people to see who wants him to be the chief, “He held the conch against his chest with one hand and stabbed the air with his index finger. ‘Who thinks Ralph oughtn’t to be chief?’” (127). Jack asserts himself as chief when he grabs the conch from Ralph and decides to put the leader of the group up to a vote. After all but the hunters decide to keep Ralph in power, Jack makes his own group and switches their number one priority to hunting. Still afraid of the beast, Jack’s group offers u the head of the mother pig on a stick sharpened on both ends so that the Beast will take this as a sign of peace and so it won’t be tempted to kill Jack and the other hunters. This passage is so important to the story because it shows the beginnings of religion and the beginning of everything based off fear-belief systems. Also, during the time the pig’s head is being put on a stick, Simon is hallucinating and seeing the Beast talk through the dead pig’s head. One of the most important parts because it is the title of the book. Simon talks to the pig’s head for a while until he realizes he’s talking to the Lord of the Flies. When the Lord of the Flies starts to taunt Simon, a very important message comes across, “Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! … you knew didn’t you? I’m part of you?” (143). This explains Golding thinks that the Beast is a part of each human being and in certain situations, the Beast comes out and takes control of us.
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