My Last Duchess

In the midst of war, a transport plane carrying a group of English boys is shot down, crashing in a thick jungle on a deserted island. Scattered by the wreck, the surviving boys lose each other. One of the older boys, Ralph, meets Piggy, a chubby, intellectual boy, on the beach. They discover a large white conch shell; Piggy realizes that it could be used as a kind of makeshift trumpet, and convinces Ralph to …

…hiding place. Ralph discovers and destroys the sow's head in the forest; but eventually he is forced out onto the beach, where the other boys will kill him. Ralph collapses in exhaustion, but when he looks up, he sees a naval officer standing over him, his ship summoned by the blazing fire now raging in the jungle. Ralph is saved; but thinking about what has happened on the island, he begins to weep. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**