Chapter+7


 * Tribe Discussion Questions **

1. What does it reveal about Ralph that he notices how dirty he has become and wishes that he could look like his old self? It reveals that Ralph likes to be clean. That he misses the society that he came from. Maybe he didn't appriciate it untill now. So now he wants to go back to living like that.

2. In what ways are the boys, particularly the hunters, becoming more and more like primitive savages in this chapter?

=== The boys are becoming more like primitive savages in the chapter because when they go out hunting, they end up playing a hunting game.They are also become more primitive savages because they are dirty and they are starting not to follow the rules that were strongly followed in the beginning of the book. ===

3. Ralph asks Jack why he hates him so much. Why do you think Jack hates Ralph so much? I think that Jack hates ralph because he wishes he had all the power and control. Jack envies the way the boys used to go by what Ralph said but now the boys are shifting toward Jack and his decisions.

4. Ralph wants to explore the mountain in the morning and Jack insists on doing it at night. Why? Would you have made the same decision? Why? I think that Jack wanted to go at night just because Ralph said to go in the morning. He would do this because he wants to show that he has more power now. I would have done in the daylight so it would be less scary.

5. Simon mentions that he does not believe in the beast in the sense that it is an actual "monster" out there trying to get them. He does believe that the beast is human. What does that mean? Think about what the beast symbolizes and how the boys, particularly the hunters, are acting at this point.