Lord of the Flies (Ch 6-7)

On page 95, the first line, "There was no light left save that of the stars," my first thought was eery and dark, though, that line may not usually be interpreted that way. However, due to the circumstances and situation of the boys, I thought it was much darker, especially how the author used, "no light left."

I don't understand why they would leave Sam and Eric in charge of the fire. Even Jack couldn't "keep up" with the fire, and do they really think the twins could? The twins that make fun of/annoy the little ones and don't have the best of focus.

On page 100 when the twins are describing the "beast," they add a lot of new feautures to it, including teeth and claws and such, and relating it to the Fear Essay, it may seem that fear distorts things, as the essay claims, and what the twins did, but I think it was because that's what children do. They distort things for attention, though they know exactly what it looks like, but they want people to feel the same fear they do.

I like the phrase, "A knot of boys." It really seems like a knot, thinking about the boys as a mess that you can't undo.

I don't understand the line on page 108, "Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering." If the boys fell silent, doesn't that mean they gave in to Ralph, but since the author used the word mutinously, isn't that the opposite?

When Ralph thinks of how the boys have become undiscplined, I thought, why is it that Ralph has so little control over them, compared to the control held over them by adults?
I thought that possibly because Ralph is in the same position as them, and he can't fix the problem (of getting off the island) either, and that signifies child, because adults usually know how to "fix" things.

The incident wth Robert made me think of the scene in To Kill A Mockingbird where the mob of white men come to the jail for Tom Robinson, but when Scout talks to one of the men, he realizes what he is doing. Previous to his talk with Scout, he was in a mob mentality, where they weren't exactly aware of what they were doing, but they were going with the crowd. I thought it was similar to what happend with the boys and Robert, because the boys got so into their mob mentality and Robert acting as the pig, they forget their limits and that it was only a game.