Chapter Summary Nine
Piggy and Ralph try to keep the fire going and talk about what happened.The four of them continue to rationalize until they've decided that they never even attended the dance, that they had left early before anything bad happened. Ralph gets a little crazy. He can't remember why he wants to make a fire, he gives up on it for the night, and then he's dancing around he thinks of a bus station and how wonderful it would be to go home. Ralph and Piggy continue to disagree. The sleeping boys are attacked by Jack.