It fails in the beginning because jack made the people watching the fire sam and Eric go with him to hunt for pig it was jacks shortness that caused the fire to go out and them not be rescued earlier
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Jack volunteers his group of hunters to be responsible for keeping the signal fire going. In their frenzied, disorganized efforts to rekindle the fire, the boys set a swath of trees ablaze.
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The boys light the island on fire to drive Ralph out of the forest. Marines/army people see it and go to the shore where Ralph runs into one. He thinks they are crazy boys playing a game, but Ralph just breaks down and cries, along with the others. Crying for the innocence they lost on the island.
Ralph insists that a signal fire must be made so that when his father comes to rescue them on a ship, the men on board will see the smoke and know where to find them. Also, burning things is fun.
The boys only had one plan for rescue, which was to keep a signal fire burning on the mountain top. Jack made the offer that his "hunters" would accept the responsibility of keeping the fire lit. Unfortunately, on the day that Ralph spotted a passing ship, Jack had decided that he need all of his hunters to effectively hunt a pig. As a result the fire was left untended and it went out. The ship passed by and the boys remained unrescued.
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