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The attempt to light the fire in the cold air is impossible without Piggy's glasses.A person who is barely able to see suggests that a meeting be held to discuss their options.The boys who have not gone to join Jack's tribe gather on the beach.Jack and his followers will see reason if they travel to the Castle Rock.
The Castle Rock is where Ralph decided to take the shell in hopes that it will remind Jack's followers of his former authority.At Jack's camp, the group encounters armed guards.The guards told them to leave and throw stones at them.Jack and a group of hunters dragged a dead pig out of the forest.The two men face off.Jack wants Ralph to leave his camp and he wants Jack to return Piggy's glasses.They fight when Jack attacks.Jack orders his hunters to capture Sam and Eric and tie them up, even though he struggles to make Jack understand the importance of the signal fire.He lunges at Jack, after this sends him into a fury.
They fought for a second time.He tried to make himself heard over the brawl.Roger pushed a rock down the mountainside as Piggy tried to remind the group of the importance of rules and rescue.A man who hears a rock fall dives and dodges it.But the boulder strikes Piggy, shatters the shell he is holding, and knocks him off the mountainside to his death on the rocks below.The other boys quickly joined in after Jack threw his spear.Sam and Eric are forced to join Jack's tribe after Roger and Jack torture them.
The Lord of the Flies and the conch shell, two important symbols in the novel, are destroyed when the two camps come into conflict.The character least able to understand the civilizing impulse, Roger, crushed the shell as he loosened the boulder and killed Piggy.The Lord of the Flies is destroyed by the boy most associated with civilization and order in the next chapter.With the death of Piggy and the forced conversion of Sam and Eric to Jack's tribe,Ralph is left alone on the island, doomed to defeat by the forces of bloodlust and primal chaos.