"Can't they see? Can't they understand? Without the smoke signal we'll die here? Look at that!" A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but without a trace of smoke. "We can't keep one fire going. And they don't care. And what's more--" He looked intensely into Piggy's streaming face. "What's more, I don't care sometimes. Supposing I got like the others - not caring. What'd become of us?" Piggy took off his glasses, deeply troubled. "I dunno, Ralph. We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grown-ups would do." We're all familiar with stories of people being shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and having to survive in one way or another until they - inevitably - get rescued. Children read classic adventure stories like Coral Island , Treasure Island and Swiss Family Robinson . These are relate light-hearted, exciting and happy adventures that children encounter when they