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Piggy wants to go and get the glasses back from Jack’s lot and Ralph doubtfully agrees. Ralph begins getting worked up about the smoke, Piggy tells him that it’s so they can be rescued. Ralph gets worked up. Ralph calls an assembly and Roger flings a stone and Samneric. Ralph and Jack argue and eventually fight about Piggy’s glasses whilst Piggy is left helpless. Jack’s savages tie up Samneric. Piggy tries to reason with Jack’s lot with the conch, but Roger pushes the rock over the cliff and kills Piggy in the process. The conch is destroyed too. Ralph runs away and escapes and Samneric are press-ganged into Jack’s lot.

Piggy wants to go and get the glasses back from Jack’s lot and Ralph doubtfully agrees. Ralph begins getting worked up about the smoke, Piggy tells him that it’s so they can be rescued. Ralph gets worked up. Ralph calls an assembly and Roger flings a stone and Samneric. Ralph and Jack argue and eventually fight about Piggy’s glasses whilst Piggy is left helpless. Jack’s savages tie up Samneric. Piggy tries to reason with Jack’s lot with the conch, but Roger pushes the rock over the cliff and kills Piggy in the process. The conch is destroyed too. Ralph runs away and escapes and Samneric are press-ganged into Jack’s lot.
Piggy wants to go and get the glasses back from Jack’s lot and Ralph doubtfully agrees. Ralph begins getting worked up about the smoke, Piggy tells him that it’s so they can be rescued. Ralph gets worked up. Ralph calls an assembly and Roger flings a stone and Samneric. Ralph and Jack argue and eventually fight about Piggy’s glasses whilst Piggy is left helpless. Jack’s savages tie up Samneric. Piggy tries to reason with Jack’s lot with the conch, but Roger pushes the rock over the cliff and kills Piggy in the process. The conch is destroyed too. Ralph runs away and escapes and Samneric are press-ganged into Jack’s lot.
Piggy wants to go and get the glasses back from Jack’s lot and Ralph doubtfully agrees.

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