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• Piggy is still holding the conch when the boulder strikes him. The conch is scattered into thousands of pieces. The boulder knocksPiggy off of Castle Rock – he falls forty feet toward the sea and lands on the rocks below, the contents of his skull oozing out.• We are told that his body twitches a bit, “like a pig’s after it has been killed.”• The boys watch in horror as the waves wash up and suck Piggy’s body into the sea.• Jack rushes forward, screaming that he really is chief now because the conch is gone. (!)• He hurls his spear at Ralph and it jabs into Ralph’s ribs.• Ralph turns and runs, with the savages after him. They throw their spears, but none hit him and he manages to escape into theforest.• Jack returns to home base, standing with Roger in front of Sam and Eric and demanding they join his tribe.• There’s an interesting Jack-Roger moment here; we are told that Roger edges past Jack, “only just avoiding pushing him with hisshoulder.” While Jack had only shouted and poked at the twins, we end the chapter with Roger advancing towards themmenacingly – “yielding a nameless authority.”Lord of the Flies Chapter 12 Summary• Ralph is completely alone now – no Piggy, no Simon, no Samneric.• He hides in the thick underbrush, wondering what to do about the rather serious wound on his ribs.• He realizes he cannot wash himself without risking capture, so he just lies there, trying to think.• At one point, peering out from his hiding spot, he saw a painted face he identified as being Bill. But then he thought that, no, reallythis wasn’t Bill; it was a savage who had nothing to do with Bill.• Finally, as the sunlight starts to fade, he sneaks over to the edge of the thicket so he can see what Jack and his group are doing.• The smoke is rising and he can smell the pig they are roasting. Ralph is hungry.• He tries to convince himself that they will leave him alone, that everything was an accident and that “they’re not as bad as that.”The convincing doesn’t work.• He makes his way back to the beach and on the way comes to a clearing in the forest.• Yes, it is the same clearing we saw before, and the Lord of the Flies is still impaled on a stick, grinning. There’s an ant crawlingthrough its eye socket.• Ralph doesn’t like the way the pig head is looking at him – it seems too alive. We are told that it “regarded Ralph like one whoknows all the answers and won’t tell.”• Ralph uses his fist to smash the skull, bruising his knuckles in the process, but even afterwards still thinks the head is grinning (itssmile is just wider now that it’s been split open). He grabs the spear on which the head had been impaled and makes off.• As night falls, Ralph goes back to Castle Rock to stare at the savages and Jack.• He is completely isolated and lonely. He wonders if he can’t just wander into the fort, as though it were a game, say “I’ve got pax”and laugh about it. After all, aren’t these the same boys who said “Sir” and wore caps?• The tribe is dancing and chanting, “Kill the beast. Cut his throat! Spill his blood!”• Ralph sees that Sam and Eric are moving freely among the savages; his heart sinks in despair, knowing that they are a part of thetribe now.• Ralph is at the end of his rope – Piggy is dead, Samneric are savages. There is no signal fire. The conch is smashed to powder.The whole situation sucks unbelievably.• After watching for a while, Ralph sneaks down and calls out softly to Sam and Eric.• Eventually, although frightened, they come over to talk to him. Sam is clearly uncomfortable with betraying his new tribe; he triesto tell Ralph to go away.• Ralph begins to say “If it were light–” and the narration tells us that, if it were light, the boys would burn in shame.• Sam and Eric say “they hurt us.”• The twins reveal that Jack is planning to hunt him (Ralph) tomorrow, starting early in the morning. They say “They’re planning todo you,” and after Simon, we all know what that means.• Ralph begs them to come with him, but they are obviously too scared. They say “You don’t know Roger. He’s a terror.”• Then we get yet another layer added to our Jack-Roger intrigue: They say that Roger and the chief are both terrors, but thatRoger… And that’s all we get.• They tell him that Jack has sharpened a stick on both ends.• Ralph wonders what that means.• Ralph tells them that he is going to hide in the thicket near their camp.• Hearing footsteps approaching, Samneric quickly hand Ralph a hunk of meat and then run off.• Ralph eats and falls asleep in the thicket, still wondering what this sharpened stick business means.• He awakens to the sound of the savages, a cry that echoes through the forest.• Ralph realizes that Jack is just feet away, right outside the thicket where he’s hiding.• He hears Jack threatening Samneric to tell him where Ralph is.• Ralph gets ready to fight; he feels the sharpened tip of spear and grins with amusement – whoever he stabs will squeal like astuck pig.