The chapter begins with three littluns, the generic title for the smaller boys, building sand . The three boys are Percival, the smallest and of the three; Henry, the biggest of them; and Johnny, who is well built.
After gets bored, he leaves, and Roger follows him. Henry becomes interested in tiny transparencies, little creatures from the . He starts to become fascinated with controlling the movement of these scavengers. While Henry’s attention is on the , Roger starts to throw at Henry. He misses him on purpose.
About ten yards behind him, Jack calls for . He follows Jack and finds Sam, Eric, Bill, and Jack putting paint on their faces. They are going on a for a pig. A problem is that Sam and are neglecting their duty of the fire. This later proves disastrous because Ralph sees smoke from a , but there is no for the ship to see them.
and his crew return with a pig. They are chanting, “Kill the pig. Cut her . Spill her .” Ralph interrupts Jack’s glory from the hunt to yell at him about letting the fire go . Piggy also yells at Jack, but this drives Jack to violence. Jack Piggy in the stomach and smacks his head, which causes Piggy’s to break.
Jack offers an to Ralph for letting the fire go out. And then they begin to start another fire, but they do so in a different location because will not move from the site of the fire.
Later they start to eat the pig. Ralph, who originally wants to resist eating the , eats it. Piggy brings on more humiliation by asking about his share of the meat. Jack tells him he didn’t hunt. But, responds that neither did Ralph nor Simon. gives Piggy his share of meat.