is crouched down like an . He is half-naked and trying to hunt a . After he is unable to kill a , he comes out of the dark and sees Ralph and building for shelter. He asks for some , which tells him is by the tree.

is disappointed in the way the , or children, do not help him build the . suggests telling them off, but shows his disappointment with meetings. He says they could have one, and they would decide to do something like build a submarine, but five minutes later everyone would be off playing and not helping. When implies that is also guilty of leaving responsibility, Jack argues that they all need . Ralph antagonizes by saying that Jack has yet to anything.

tries to argue that are needed in case of rain. But also they need shelter to create a sense of home. The children are still afraid of the , or the snake-thing, and shelter might help calm that fear.

argues that the most important thing is to get . Jack has a hard time remembering what that word means. He says that he would prefer to catch a first.

While is telling to make sure his hunters remember to keep the going, realizes where the must be hiding from the hot sun. This angers because the way screamed when he made this discovery made think Jack saw a .

After they are done talking, they notice that is gone. They assume that he is taking a . But he is not in the bathing pool; rather, he has escaped to a secret place in the forest.