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The fire throughout the book is used as a symbol of hope and rescue. You see this when Ralph pleads for order, "The fire is the most important thing on the island. How can we ever be rescued except by luck, if we don’t keep a fire going?...Don’t you understand? Can’t you see we ought to—ought to die before we let the fire out?" (Golding 31). Fire is the main priority of Ralph, and in many ways is as obsesses over it as Jack is with killing pigs. Its was meant to send smoke up for rescue, but often overlooked by the boys. Which in the end splits the group up, based on their differing ideas of priorities. The fire was the biggest irony of the whole book. How your hope and ambitions turn against you. It is showing how humanity technology and aspiration destroy nature and in some ways our sanity. The fire was the boy's hopes, a way off the island. But in the end destroyed the island, hope, and symbolic the