Ch. 11 Questions

1. Ralph's group decides to go to Jack's group and get Piggy's specs back.
2. The twins are "seeing Ralph for the first time" because Ralph returns to his main goal which is lighting the rescue fire to be saved. They see him return back to being civilized which is how he was in the beginning of the book.
3. The boys attempt to get Piggy's specs back and get the other boys to maintain the fire is bound to fail because they only listen to Jack. They don't follow Ralph because they believe Jack has more power but Jack will be difficult to convince to do the right thing.
4. Rodger pushes the rock off the cliff because he wants to show that he can do things for himself and the tribe.
5. The destruction of the conch is symbolically significant because it was a form of order on the island. Without it they have no order and can't maintain a civilized group.
6. For most of the boys the reason they want a chief is so they don't have to make decisions on their own. If they have a chief it is easy for them to just follow along and have someone make choices for them.
7. Do you want to be rescued at all or just stay on the island?
    What are you planning to do when there is nothing to hunt?
8.      The state of the island has completely changed from when we first got here. From attempts of rescue fires are ashes and dust around the island because we could not control the fire. Most of the island is burned by the fire. Simon's hide out is filled with disgusting pig parts. Over all the island is in worse shape than it was because of the scar and the rescue fires.
         Us boys are no longer the same, we've divided into 2 groups. Jack and the hunters occupy Castle Rock and Ralph and his group occupy the beach. There has been growing tension because of the deaths on the island. We are no longer one group, we actually despise each other. No matter what, whenever the 2 groups pass each other they show hatred for each other.