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The boy’s make up a ritual dance to celebrate the hunt. They claim its just a game, but Robert is hurt. As the fire died down so did the excitement. The littluns stopped singing and dancing and drifted away toward the sea or the fruit trees or the shelters. By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day’s decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player. He thought of the littluns and Piggy. Vividly he imagined Piggy by himself, huddled in a shelter that was silent except for the sounds of nightmare. And I was frightened and started to call out for Ralph and then I saw something moving among the trees, something big and horrid.”
Do all right on our own,” said Piggy. “It's them that haven't no common sense that make trouble on this island. We'll make a little hot fire-” Beyond the screen of leaves the sunlight pelted down and the butterflies danced in the middle their unending dance. He knelt down and the arrow of the sun fell on him. That other time the air had seemed to vibrate with heat; but now it threatened. Soon the sweat was running from his long coarse hair. He
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OFFICIOUS: adj. 1. Marked by excessive eagerness in offering unwanted services or advice to others. 2. Informal; unofficial. 3. Archaic. Eager to render services or help others. — officiously adv. — officiousness n.
Ralph finished his inspection and looked up into the air. The sky, as if in sympathy with the great changes among them, was different today and so misty that in some places the hot air I’ve been watching the sea. There hasn’t been the trace of a ship. Perhaps we’ll never be rescued.” CONCH: n., pl. conchs or conches. 1. Any of various tropical marine gastropod mollusks, especially of the genera Strombus and Cassis, having large, often brightly colored spiral shells and edible flesh. 2. The shell of one of these gastropod mollusks, used as an ornament, in making cameos, or as a horn. 3. Anatomy. FORMULATE: tr.v. formulated, formulating, formulates. 1.a. To state as or reduce to a formula. b. To express in systematic terms or concepts. c. To devise or invent. 2. To prepare according to a specified formula. — formulation n. — formulator n.A little air was moving over the mountain. Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses. He held the conch under his arm.
SPECULATE: v. speculated, speculating, speculates. — intr. 1. To meditate on a subject; reflect. 2. To engage in a course of reasoning often based on inconclusive evidence. 3. To engage in the buying or selling of a commodity with an element of risk on the chance of profit. — tr. To assume to be true without conclusive evidence. Piggy held out his hands for the conch but Ralph shook his head. This speech was planned, point by point.Something he had not known was there rose in him and compelled him to make the point, loudly and again. He laid the conch with great care in the grass at his feet . The humiliating tears were running from the comer of each eye. And sooner or later a ship will put in here. It might even be Daddy’s ship. So you see, sooner or later, we shall be rescued.” ULULATION: intr.v. ululat
Again the pressure of the assembly took his voice away. He sought for help and sympathy and chose Piggy. He turned half toward him, clutching the conch to his brown chest. Now people seem to use everywhere. Even near the shelters and the platform. You littluns, when you're eating fruit; if you're taken short-"
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Again he fell into that strange mood of speculation that was so foreign to him. If faces were different when lit from above or below - what was a face? What was anything?
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