Chapter Seven of Lord of the Flies
finds Roger beginning to quietly assert himself. When Jack states the he
will go up the mountain to look for the beast and challenges Ralph accompany
them, Ralph accepts the dare. Then, he stops and
asks,
"Why
should only two go?" Astonlshingly, a dark figure moved against the
tide.
Roger, who is
uncommunicative by nature, sits on the trunk and taps his stick against it. He
surprises Ralph when he speaks because after some time Ralph and Jack have forgotten
him. Again, as they progress in the darkness, Roger joins them, but lingers
behind some. Then, when Jack and Ralph hesitate, Roger bumps them, "fumbled with a hiss
of breath, and passed onwards." Clearly, he is a sinister force, although he, like Jack
and Ralph, is frightened by the creature with "the ruin of a face" and abandons his
spear and runs back down the dark slope from which they have
come.
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