In the Lord of the Flies, a group of boys find are stranded on an island. The boys names are Ralph, Piggy, Simon, Jack, Eric, Sam, and Roger. Throughout the book, the boys change a lot. The boys arrive on the island and assume that they will be rescued soon. However, they soon realize that they may be stuck for a very long time. The group is roughly divided into the "littluns" who are boys around the age of six, and the "biguns," who are between age ten and twelve. To start, the boys attempt to form a culture similar to the one they left behind. They elect a leader, Ralph, who, with the advice of Piggy attempts to establish rules similar to that of the homes they left behind. Jack commands a group of choirboys who are then transformed into hunters who sacrifice the duty of tending the fire so that they can take part in the hunts. Jack lures the other boys slowly away from Ralph's influence which ignites the fight. One night, an air battle happens above the island, and a remain of the battle comes down with his opened parachute, stopping on the mountaintop. Breezes occasionally inflate the parachute, making the body appear to sit up and then sink forward again. Of all the boys, only Simon has the courage to uncover the true identity of the beast sighted on the mountain. After seeing the death of the sow take place and the gift made of her head to the beast, Simon begins to hallucinate, and the staked sow's head becomes the Lord of the Flies, Simon also believes that the beast is not an animal on the loose but is hidden in each boy's psyche. Simon then faints after making his brain rattle around this strange topic. After coming to later that evening, he climbs up the mountain and finds that the beast is but a dead pilot. After finding this out he goes to bring the news to the other boys, he walks into the tribal frenzy of their dance. Thinking he is the beast, the boys beat him to death. Now only three of the "biguns", including Piggy, are still in Ralph's group. Jack's group steals Piggy's glasses to start its cooking fires, leaving Ralph unable to start his fire for his camp. When Ralph and his small group approach Jack's tribe to ask for the glasses back, one of Jack's hunters releases a huge boulder on Piggy, killing him. The tribe captures the other two "biguns" prisoners, leaving Ralph on his own. The tribe goes on a manhunt to kill Ralph. The group starts a fire to smoke him out of one of his hiding places, creating a forest fire that engulfs the whole island. A passing ship spots the smoke emitted from the fire, and a British naval officer arrives on the beach just in time to save Ralph from being killed at the hands of the boys turned enemies.