Compare And Contrast Piggy And The Conch

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Piggy and the conch, Piggy’s brilliant idea to use the conch, was amazing. A conch is a wind instrument that is made from a seashell, the shell of several different kinds of very large sea snails. His idea is “we can use this to call others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us” (Golding 16), said Piggy. What Piggy means is that they could blow on the conch shell that makes like a horn noise and call a meeting, so everyone would come running for the group meeting. Piggy starts to worry about what the grownups would think if they see how the boys were acting towards one another and says, “What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or Savages? What are grownups going to think?” (Golding 91) What Piggy is trying to say is that what they are doing

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