Chapter Summaries

This section has summaries of every chapter. They include the main action of the chapter and comments about how Golding builds the action and weaves into it the meaning of the novel. These summaries should not be used as substitutes for reading the novel.

Chapter 1 - The Sound Of the Shell
Chapter 2 - Fire on the Mountain
Chapter 3 - Huts on the Beach
Chapter 4 - Painted Faces and Long Hair
Chapter 5 - Beast From Water
Chapter 6 - Beast From Air
Chapter 7 - Shadows and Tall Trees
Chapter 8 - Gift for the Darkness
Chapter 9 - A View to a Death
Chapter 10 - The Shell and the Glasses
Chapter 11 - Castle Rock
Chapter 12 - Cry of the Hunters