Chapter 12

In the last chapter Ralph is thinking about the death of Simon and Piggy and he realizes that there is no civilization left on the island and that wildness took the boys over. In the chapter Ralph destroys the sow head and takes the stick and wants to use it as weapon against Jack. when Ralph goes down to the jacks tripe he sees Sam and Eric guarding the camp entrance and they give him food and warn him that jack wants to kill him. So he hides in a thicket and fell asleep there.In the morning Jack is torturing the twins to find out the location of Ralph and he orders to smoke the forest that he can find Ralph and kill him. Because of the smoke he had to come out and runs and tries to find a new hiding place but he collapses on the beach where Ralph realizes a  naval officer, the officer came because he saw the island burning and the officer brings the children away from the island and Ralph is rescued from the terrible death that he would normally had. The chapter has much irony in it for example it is really ironical that the fire that burned almost the hole forest brought the officer to the island and it was not a normal signal fire like they had in the beginning. Golding uses this irony to blurs the boundary between civilization and savagery and it shows that they are closer together than it was illustrated in the story.