Lord Of The Flies Conch Quotes

Almost everyone experiences a time in their life when they are certain they are correct and that everyone else is wrong. In William Golding’s book Lord of the Flies, a story about a group of young boys who are stranded on an island, the concept of one sidedness and disagreement between competing groups and people is illustrated multiple times. Through the use of symbolism, setting, and characterization, this book, Lord of the Flies, demonstrates that hunger for power can drive humanity to be blinded by their own opinions and ideas.
Symbolism, from the fire as a sign of hope to the Lord of the Flies himself representing fear and imagination, is a very important tool used in this book. “He lifted the conch. ‘Seems to me we ought to have a chief to decide things’” (page 28) introduces the significance of the conch, a symbol of …show more content…
The quote from the book, “Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high” (page 13) describes the platform that serves as a meeting place for the boys. It is established early in the book that this platform is a place that they boys always come back to when they hear the conch. This place is one of the only things that the boys agree on, especially when there is an outbreak of conflicting ideas. However, as the book progresses, this platform is abandoned after the boys start to disagree even more than before. When a few of the boys climb the mountain for the first time, they got a glimpse of the amazing island they were on. “Beyond the hollow was the square top of the mountain and soon they were standing on it” (page 37). It was decided that the fire would be at this point in the mountain. This mountain has smoke rising from it for most of the book, and its purpose is to have higher ground for a visible rescue