Chapter Twelve: Cry of the Hunters
"They hate you, Ralph. They're going to do you."
Ralph has just witnessed the death of Piggy and knows he is next. Running to who knows where in the jungle, Ralph comes upon the stick used for the pig head, and uses it to defend himself in case Jack came anytime soon. While he he going through the jungle he also comes upon Sam and Eric, who warn him about what Jack and his tribe is planning to do to him the next day. The next day Ralph can hear Jack's tribe coming and sneaks off not before he realizes that he has set the jungle on fire to smoke him out. His tribe is getting closer and closer, Ralph finds himself sprinting to the beach where he comes across a navy officer. The officer tells him he has saw the fire and came to see what it was all about. After he learns the truth about what has really been going on, he is shocked to see what savages all of these boys have become. I was very surprised that at the end Ralph was being the one hunted and not someone like Jack. In the beginning Jack was the choir boy who no one really knew, but eventually became savage. I also was not surprised that the twins came back to Ralph to tell him what Jack was planning to do to him because they were always close and go t along well.
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