Chapter Nine Summaries

The chapter begins with Simon exploring around the mountainside where he sees the bulge and finds out that it is in fact a dead man who had parachuted onto the island. He then heads back to the beach to tell the others, staggering along the way. Ralph and Piggy decide to go down to Jack’s tribe for some meat and fun at the feast. They eat their share of the pig until they are all full before it begins pouring rain down on them along with some bright lightening. The boys form a crowd and pretend to be stalking prey in a circle formation chanting about killing the beast, cutting his throat, and spilling his blood. When Simon comes stumbling out of the forest yelling about a dead man on the mountain, the crowd attacks him and kills him. The chapter ends with Simon’s dead body floating out to sea, the first of the boys to be viciously murdered on the island.