Beasts from Water

1. Ralph starts to realize that in life there is always surprises and that you have to be able to adjust to them or he will go insane and won't survive. He begins to get frustrated with his looks and his life in general. When he first got on the island, Ralph had hope and thought that there was a chance that he would return to his old life. But, now all hope is lost and Ralph has to change himself in order to live a life that will allow him to survive.

2. When Ralph blows the conch, gathering everyone to the beach, he is filled with anger and disappointment. Ralph discusses how nobody is follower orders and helping to make the island a suitable home; how nobody is helping building the shelters, neglecting the fire, and not using the designated area for the bathroom.

3. "We've got to have smoke up there- or die." Ralph is correct when saying the smoke is more important than the pig because the fire is the only chance they have of getting off the island. But Ralph is incorrect when saying this because he needs to realize that there is a slight chance that anyone will even see the smoke and that he needs to start establishing a permanent life and home on the island. The first steps in doing this is finding food sources, hence the importance of the pig.

4. Jack says that the littluns should stop crying and getting upset about the beasty because it is only scaring everyone more and making everything more chaotic. Jack tries to explain that the beasty is only inside there heads, it is only a dream and dreams can't and won't hurt them. He is being sensible because no one has seen the beasty with their own eyes, just that Ralph has heard the cries of the littluns at night.

5. The littluns start to cry because they are thinking more about the monster and how it comes up from the ocean at night. They initially start to cry because Percival is crying.

6. Simon comes up with the idea that the beasty is them, that they are the beasts and they are scaring themselves. Everyone doesn't like that idea so they ignore it and start to talk about how maybe the beasty is a ghost.

7. The meeting ends when Ralph and Jack start to fight again and then Jack and the other kids run off chanting with excitement about hunting and killing the beast.

8. At the end of chapter the kids wish that the adults would give them a message or a sign, because they still have a small hope that they will return to them. They are all starting to miss having adults around in general and just want that part of their life back.