1. When the naval officer looks at the boys, what does he see? 2. How successful are Ralph's attempts to rationalize what has happened? 3. How is Ralph's hiding place discovered?

1. He sees filthy boys with splinted sticks run out of the burning jungle. He sees little boys with distended bellies climb out in filthy rags.

2. Ralph can't articulate what happened before breaking down, “He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island; great, shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body."

3. The boys smoke Ralph out (burn the island down). Eventually he makes his last run towards the beach.