This conversation is very ironic. These lines are ironic because the boys are talking to each other about the beast as if it was an animal. What they haven’t realized yet is that the beast is really them and the evil inside of them. I found it interesting how the boys haunted pigs and ate them, and in Chapter 8 the pigs head was the one who symbolized the “beast” or in other words the “Lord of the Flies.” It is really ironic how the boys spent so much time looking for the beast so they could kill it, and they were the beast. The situation they were in turned them into savages, but since they were so concentrated on haunting and killing the beast, they didn’t realize what was really going on with themselves.
