1. The  Sound of the Shell.

Description of Ralph and Piggy, they speak of their families and of their current situation. They believe that they are in a desert island. They believe that they have had an aeroplane accident and they are the only survivors. They are in a world where there are not grown-ups.

Meticulous descriptions of the sea, the beach, the forest, etc…

Piggy insists on to look for some more survivors and to make a meeting.

They find a conch. They go to a platform of rocks and Ralph makes it sound. The first boy appears Johnny. Then two twins: Sam and Eric. A numerous group of children appears, they seem an army, Jack Merridew controls them.

All of them arrive to the platform and as they do not come to an agreement, they choose a boss by voting: Ralph is the elected and he decides that Merridew and his children (the children of the choir) are the hunters.

Later they will recognise the place where they will be sure that they are in a desert island. Ralph, Merridew and Simon will ascend to the summit of a mountain and they will confirm that they are in a desert island. They return with the others. They realise that they are hungry. On their return they meet a small boar, Merridew takes out a knife to kill him but he does not dare.

2. Fire on the mountain.

Ralph makes sound the conch again, there is another meeting in the platform. He informs everybody that they are in a desert island and that there are wild pigs. Ralph realises a thing: “there are not bigger people, we will have to take care ourselves.”

It is approved that if anyone wants to speak he will need to have the conch. All of them accept the new rules.

Piggy tells them that nobody knows where they are.

There is a boy that assures to have seen a snake, so they are disturbed. Ralph calms them and Jack says that if that snake exists they will hunt it.

Ralph tells them that his father is a sailor and that he will rescue them. Then the children are calmed.

They decide to make a blaze to warn the ships of their presence in the island. They use Piggy’s glasses to light the fire. Ralph proposes that there should be a group in charge of the fire, and Jack offers to divide his group of hunters in two, so that some of them hunt and some others watch over and take charge of the fire.

Piggy makes them meditate about what they have made. They realise that it has been a waste of time: they wanted a small fire and they have made one giant, he alleges that they only pay attention to Ralph and Jack and that is not right, because he could have avoided that loss of time.

Meanwhile the fire has spread and the forest burns. Piggy suggests making cabins, and making the fire in the beach where the forest can not burn. They lose a boy, and the fire is still in progress .

3. Huts on the beach.

Jack tries to hunt a pig, but he doesn't dare to kill him.

            Simon and Ralph build two refuges. They complain that nobody helps them. The children are playing the whole day.

They realise that they make too many meetings, some of them useless because after them each one makes what he wants.

They want to eat meat and they reproach it to Jack and their hunters.

They need shelters, the children are afraid.

4. Painted Faces and Long Hair.

 Jack puts on makeup with coal to go hunting.

A ship passes far from the island. The caretakers of the fire are taking a bath and the fire is off.

Jack and his children have hunted a boar, and they are celebrating it with some rites. Ralph thinks if it has been worthy to hunt the boar and not to warn the ship. The answer is evident. Piggy and Ralph put on against Jack.

There is an opposition between two worlds:

- The world of the hunt, the dexterity, the tactics and the wild happiness.

- The world of the nostalgia and the confused common sense.

Piggy questions Jack, and Jack hits him. The latter breaks Piggy’s glasses.

Ralph is angry with Jack because the fire is off. They light the fire again.

They roast the pig and they eat it up. They tell how they hunted the boar.

Ralph catches the conch and he announces that there will be a meeting in the platform.

5. Beast from Water.

Ralph thinks about the life that they have there. He would prefer to live at home.

The meeting was, in words of Ralph: “to put the things in order”, because they have been stopped to make things that intended in previous meetings. Ralph speaks of the refuges, of the hygiene, of the blaze, of the fear of the small ones, and so on.

Jack catches the conch and speaks on behalf of Ralph, he also speaks of the fear from the children to a wild animal, to a beast. Piggy catches the shell, he says that there is not a wild animal and he affirms that the only fear that they can have is the one that one feel, for the other ones, the fear to the human being. A boy affirms that the wild animal comes out of the sea. Ralph concludes the same as Piggy: perhaps they are the wild animals. There is a dispute between Piggy and Jack, Ralph is hit, he catches the conch and he sits down. He asks who believes in ghosts. Most of them believe in them. Piggy asks them if they are animal or people, because people do not believe in ghosts.

Jack, without having the shell, interrupts the speech of Piggy breaking the rules. Ralph tells him to respect them but Jack answers that the rules are useless. The assembly breaks down. 

Simon recognises to fear Jack.

Ralph, Simon and Piggy discuss on what the grown-ups would have made in their place.

6. The monster of the air.

They are able to fall asleep. While they sleep a parachutist falls in the island. Sam and Eric were those in charge of maintaining the fire.

They heard the noise of the parachute, they got scared and they left running. They look for Ralph, they tell him that they have seen the wild animal. They tell Ralph and Piggy what they have seen. Ralph calls for an assembly. Jack commands the creature's hunt.

Piggy is under the care of the children.

Jack says that the conch is no longer necessary as everybody knows who has to speak and who has to remain silent.

Ralph reproaches Jack its attitude, because he gives more importance to the hunt than to the blaze.

Ralph thinks that the beast lives in the only place that Jack has not registered in the island: the Castle. They go to the castle and nobody dares to enter. Ralph does it.

There is a meticulous description of the sea, the route to the castle and the castle.

Jack accompanies him, he decides it at the end. They see that it can be a good place to live. They inspect it and they do not find the beast. They think that it will be in the mountain.

7. Shades and high Trees.

Ralph makes balance of his hygiene and the children. Simon and Ralph talk about the rescue. They go hunting. Ralph hurts a boar. There are rites and dances again.

They go to the mountain.

Simon returns to warn Piggy that they will return at night.

All stops, they don't want to ascend to the mountain, Jack challenges Ralph and he ascends alone. Then Roger and Ralph go.

They come to the parachutist who they think that is the wild animal.

8. Offering to the darkness.

They return and tell Piggy that they have seen the wild animal.

Jack organises a meeting to choose the boss again. Ralph wins and Jack goes away but he takes with him some boys. Jack is the boss of his group, they are only devoted to hunt.

They hunt a sow. They need fire and they will steal it from Ralph. They make an offering to the wild animal. Jack offers Ralph’s group meat if they join his own group.

9. A death is announced.

Simon discovers that the wild animal is a parachutist.

Ralph and Piggy decide to go to Jack's banquet. While they dance around the fire, they confuse Simon with the wild animal and they kill him.

10. The conch and the glasses.

Ralph and Piggy are alone, the other ones are small children. They think of Simon's murder. Jack’s group attacks Piggy at night and they steal him the glasses.

11. The Crag of the castle.

They speak to Jack so that he returns the glasses to Piggy. Ralph and Jack fight for this reason.

Jack catches as prisoners Sam and Eric.

Piggy tries to speak to the group and they kill him with a rock. They try to kill Ralph, but he escapes.

12. The scream of the hunters.

            They try to hunt Ralph to kill him. He escapes toward the beach, as they have set on fire the island. When it seems that they are going to kill him an official of the marine appears.

He affirms that he has seen the fire. Then they rescue the children.