Quote from Lord of the Flies Page 152

"A thing was crawling out of the forest. It came darkly, uncertainly. The shrill screaming that rose before the beast was like a pain. The beast stumbled into the horseshoe."
-Lord of the Flies Page 152
This is an important moment in the novel. This quote tells of the beginning of the first murder in the novel. The boys of the island have begun performing rituals that detail the hunts that they partake in. Simon, in the dark appears to be the beast and falls into one of the rituals. The boys savagery leads to Simon being beaten to death, marking a point in the novel in which the boys pass from being innocent young boys to being blood-thirsty mongrels.

Quote from Lord of the Flies Page 111

''Ralph-we need meat even if we are hunting the other thing.'"
-Lord of the Flies Page 111
Even as the group is trying to hunt the beast, many of the boys can only thing of hunting, killing, and eating pigs. The thought of meat seems to put the boys in a trance where the sole objects in their minds is killing pigs. This obsession with meat is beginning to tear the island apart. Even Ralph's mind is beginning to embrace the ideas of hunting pigs. This obsession may eventually lead to the demise of the order on the island.