What happens to a group of boys left all alone in the wild with no adult supervision? There are many possibilities, but they will most likely become wild, savage, and barbaric. As much as they would try to be civilized, it is definitely a lot easier said than done. It would be stressful to find clean water, make shelter, and kill food. Rules will be made and then broken. People will turn against each other. There is a ton of symbolism in the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, but the most significant representation would be the conch shell symbolising civilization among the boys on the island.
In the beginning of the story, Ralph and Piggy find the conch shell in the lagoon. They blow into it and the noise simultaneously brings the boys together from all around the island for the first time. This happens many times throughout the story, the conch is the one and only item that can truly unite the boys. It also helps to keep the fighting to a minimum. Ralph tells the boys, “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking,” the boys begin to argue with him, so he cuts them off saying, “And he won’t be interrupted” (Golding 33). All the boys feel the need to yell over each other to be heard, but Ralph decides that this is not an effective way for them to communicate. They all seemed to follow this …show more content…
The shell binds them together, helps them work through the confusion of being stranded on the island, and helps to start them up on establishing rules for the island. However, the more that the book progresses the more the shell becomes irrelevant to their civilization, because they don’t have it anymore. This book shows that being free from something can be good as long as you still can live your life in a productive manner. Being carefree and detaching yourself from something completely is not good and will lead to
In the beginning of the story, Ralph and Piggy find the conch shell in the lagoon. They blow into it and the noise simultaneously brings the boys together from all around the island for the first time. This happens many times throughout the story, the conch is the one and only item that can truly unite the boys. It also helps to keep the fighting to a minimum. Ralph tells the boys, “I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking,” the boys begin to argue with him, so he cuts them off saying, “And he won’t be interrupted” (Golding 33). All the boys feel the need to yell over each other to be heard, but Ralph decides that this is not an effective way for them to communicate. They all seemed to follow this …show more content…
The shell binds them together, helps them work through the confusion of being stranded on the island, and helps to start them up on establishing rules for the island. However, the more that the book progresses the more the shell becomes irrelevant to their civilization, because they don’t have it anymore. This book shows that being free from something can be good as long as you still can live your life in a productive manner. Being carefree and detaching yourself from something completely is not good and will lead to