Piggy discounts the midday illusions as mere mirages.
The northern European tradition of work, play and food right through the day made it possible for the boys to adjust themselves to the new rhythm. The littluns spend most of the day searching for fruit to eat, and since they choose it indiscriminately suffer from chronic diarrhea. They cry for their mothers less often than expected, and spend time with the older boys only during Ralph's assemblies. They build castles in the sand. One of the biggest of the littluns is Henry, a distant relative of the boy who disappeared.