Chp.5 Beast From Water

In the chapter the Beast From Water all the kids biguns and littluns are frightened because they think the beastie is coming from the water instead of the forest. Ralph calls an assembly not to have fun but to take things seriously because not everybody is helping like they said they would help. Chaos is happening on the island. Fresh water is running out. They kids are not using the right lavatories to wash their clothes on. The fire is not always on. The littluns are having nightmares and when they wake up they think it was real because one of the kids saw a big figure moving at the middle of the night which turns out to be Simon who's the one sneaking out at night. They still there's something else out there in the forest. Jack jumps out in the conversation and says that there cant be no beastie because he has been all around the island and if there was a beastie who would have seen it. After that Piggy concludes that if the beast is not in the forest it can be coming out of the water. They talk about some sort of animal called a squid. The trouble starts again with Piggy and Jack. Ralph wants to quit his job in being chief because its alot of pressure and he cant take it anymore.

"I know about me. And him. He can't hurt you: but if you stand out of the way he'd hurt the next thing. And that's me" (pg.93)

I think this quote is the most important quote in the chapter because it shows that Ralph is better than Jack in many ways. Also its an example of symbolism because Ralph represents someone that stands in the middle of Jack so he cant hurt Piggy. This happens in the assembly where they are trying to figure out if the beastie is real or its just part of the littluns imagination.