They are, once again, "A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with coloured clay, sharp sticks in their hands, standing on the beach making no noise at all.".
Returning to the wonderful, shiny, happy, paradisiacal world the boys originally inhabit, the realization is gained that the boys are only joyful because their clear, logical, memory-efficient brains recognize that nothing will or can hurt them. They remember everything from before, as in the case of Percival Wemys Madison, who gives his name, and address, reciting them directly from memory. By the end of the book, he cannot remember his own name. Although at first, the boys establish an assembly, a common meeting ground, to discuss what they should do, even that symbol of democracy and maturity crumbles and falls apart. While Jack and his hunters enjoy the world of hunting, adventure, expedition, and danger, Ralph is tormented by thoughts of responsibility, common sense, and logic. Jack doesn't care about order; he only cares about the need to kill. Ralph on the other hand, only wants to be rescued. ""There was a ship. Out there. You said you"d keep the fire going and you let it out!" He took a step towards Jack who turned and faced him. "They might have seen us. We might have gone home---"" Quote Ralph, whereas on the other hand, Jacks sentiments to the same situation were quite different. " "We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time." " Progressing through the novel, Ralph continues to be consumed with rescue, and Jack doesn't care. Mentally, Ralph is still attached to his home, his innocence. Jack is not. Eventually, Ralph is Jacks enemy, hunted as though he were an animal. Fear, loneliness and betrayal threaten to overwhelm Ralph, yet still he does not give in to emotion. Only when he fully realizes what they have lost, at the sight of the naval officer, does he break down and weep, "Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.