Who goes to Castle Rock in the book Lord of the Flies?

Answer 1

Castle Rock is a small rocky outcrop which is connected to the 'pointed end' of the main island by a narrow causeway. When Jack leaves the group and forms his own 'tribe' he chooses Castle Rock as his headquarters because it has rocky overhangs which provide shelter, there is a spring which supplies running water and Jack believes that it is easily defensible against Ralph's group and the 'beast.'
Castle rock is the name that the boys give to a rocky outcrop, almost a small island, which is connected to the pointed end of the main island by a narrow causeway. After Samneric claimed to have been chased from the mountain top by the beast the boys decide to hunt for it. As Jack claims to have explored the rest of the island without ever seeing any sign of the beast the boys assume that it must be using castle rock as its lair, as this is the one place the boys have never explored. When they reach it Ralph goes alone across the causeway, feeling that it is his duty to do so as he is the chief. Jack soon joins him (probably so as not to lose face before his hunters). Once they are certain that there is no trace of a beast the other boys also come and explore. Ralph is dismissive of the rock, calling it a 'rotten place.' Jack is excited by its prospects, finding a trickle of fresh water to drink, an overhanging ledge of rock to provide shelter and a number of boulder on the top of the rock, which he declared could be tumbled with levers to defend the rock from attackers. Later in the novel, when Jack has formed his own tribe, he makes castle rock his headquarters.

Answer 2

In the book "Lord of the Flies," the boys who go to Castle Rock are Jack, his tribe of hunters, and Ralph. Castle Rock becomes a symbol of the divergence between Jack's ruthless rule and Ralph's more democratic leadership style.

Answer 3

Samneric. They are stationed on guard duty in chapter 12. They see Ralph and give him food and tell him about Jack's plan to hunt him down but refuse to join him. Ralph goes and hides and Jack tortures one of the twins the next day to discover Ralph's hiding place.

Answer 4

Initially, in chapter 6, Ralph went to the Castle Rock in search of the beast and was soon followed by Jack and then the rest of the boys. Later in the novel Jack chose Castle Rock to be the headquarters of his tribe. Ralph and Piggy went there, in chapter 11, to confront Jack over the theft of Piggy's glasses. Ralph returned alone to find out, from Samneric, what Jack had planned for him.