Lord of the Flies Response

  -"Sit down all of you.  They raided us for fire.  They're having fun.  But the-"  Ralph was puzzled by the shutter that flickered in his brain.  There was something that he wanted to say; then the shutter had come down.  "But the-"  They were regarding him gravely, not yet troubled by any doubts about his sufficiency.  Ralph pushed the idiot hair out of his eyes and looked at Piggy.  "But the...oh...the fire!  Of course, the "Fire!"-

  In this short excerpt from Lord of the Flies, the civilized group of boys was raided by the savage group of boys for fire.  Upon securing the fire the savage group of boys offered the civilized group an invitation to a feast.  Ralph, the leader of the civilized, tries to keep order among his group and discourage attendance at the feast.  Keeping the fire burning has been a needed task for all the boys on the island in order to get rescued, but only the civilized try to keep it smoking.  The savage group of boys only cares about having fun and hunting pigs, which neither activity would lead to rescue.

  All the boys have been on the island for a couple of  weeks surviving off fruits and the first pig of two that the savages caught.  Ralph, a victim of the passing time is starting to lose sight of his main goal; getting rescued.  On a daily basis, he's constantly snapping at the other boys reminding them of the fire's importance.  The civilized boys became expectant of being reprimanded by Ralph whenever they forgot about the fire.  Just like the young boy Percival, Ralph is losing his memories of the real civilized world.