"Fire on the Mountain"

In chapter two " Fire on the Mountain", the boys return from their venture on the island. They gather back down at the platform for a meeting, and they explain how they seen a pig, but it got away. Jack promised "next time". The meeting was about how there were no grownups and ralph said that there will be rules. One rule is that whoever is holding the conch gets to talk , and until another person who wants to speak gets the conch everyone is to listen. There was a little boy with a birthmark on his face that needed to say something. He came foward but was frightened to death so he could not speak. He finaly spoke of how he seen "the beastie". Then Ralph and Jack argued that there was no beastie on the island. From there they talked about what they needed to do next: build a fire for resuce purposes. Ralph and Jack lead the way as the boys followed them up the mountain to build a fire, and once they got up to the mountain they used Piggy's specs to start the fire. Then they argued over Piggy speaking. They were rude to Piggy, as usual. The fire was big and full of flames; as the littluns worked to help bring wood ,Piggy noticed the small boy with the birthmark on his face was nowhere to be seen. Then a tree in the fire exploded and the boys shrieked " the snakes, the snakes!". They continued on about the little boy that was nowhere to be seen.