Golding   Chapter One    Setting

• When the next world war was begining, a plane was shot down over the ocean and crashed in the jungle of a deserted island.
• Piggy and Ralph find a conch shell, and Piggy gets Ralph to blow through it so the other boys from the plane wreckage will come to where they are.
• The oldest of all the survivors are 12 and the youngest are 6.
• All of the boys vote for a leader and Ralph wins.

Golding     Chapter Two    On the beach

• Ralph sends out a search crew to look for any other survivors, but find no one.
• Ralph suggests they should build a fire on top of the islands mountains, so any passing ships will find them.
• The boy that told everyone of the "beast" goes missing after playing by the fire.

Golding   Chapters three and four   Problems on the Beach

• Jack and a group of hunters try to kill pigs, but have no luck.
• Ralph becomes unhappy that none of the other boys, except Simon, will help him work.
• Jack and Ralph start to fight about everything after having serveral small fights.

Golding     Chapter Five     Trying to Rebuild the group

• Ralph calls a meeting and fusses at all the boys for how they have been avoiding working and not helping at all.
• One of the boys says that he has actually seen a beast, and that it might come up from the ocean at night.
• Ralph tells Simon and Piggy that he thinks he might lose leadership of the group.

Golding    Chapter Six       The Parachuter

• While military planes are getting blown up above the island, a dead parachuter floats down to the island and becomes tangled in the trees.
• The parachuter leaves shadows on the beach, and the wind makes it look like his head is moving up and down.
• The twins mistake the parachuter as "the beast".

Golding      Chapter Seven    The hunt

• Ralph is angry that the boys have become undisciplined and play all the time.
• Ralph goes on his first hunt and throws his spear and hits a boar in the snout.
• Jack challenges Ralph to go on another hunt and Ralph does it so the other boys will like him again.
• Ralph, Jack, and Rodger find the monster and run down the mountain to warn the others.

Golding     Chapter eight     Jack Leaves

• Jack calls a meeting and says that Ralph is a coward and that he should be removed from his leadership role. 
• The other boys don't want to vote him out, so Jack leaves and says that anyone who wants can join him.
• Piggy tells Ralph they should build a new signal fire on the beach so they have a better chance of being saved.

Golding      Chapter Nine       The Two Groups

• Jack assembles his own group, who kills a pig and leaves its head on a sharpened stick as an offering to the beast.
• Simon finds the pigs head in the jungle and sits and stares at it.
• The pig's head talks to Simon in the voice of the Lord of the Flies and promises that he will never escape the beast and to have some fun with Simon.

Golding    Chapter ten