When Jack killed the pig, he cut off its head and put it on a stick, which was found by Simon. Simon was known for going unconscious for a short period of time; he was just about to go unconscious and had a vision of him talking to the head of the pig which was covered in flies. (This is how the book got its name) The pig’s head, tells Simon that the beast isn’t something they can kill; it’s the evil inside of all of them, “’Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!’ said the head. For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter. ‘You knew, didn’t you?
However, by the end of the novel when the conch shell breaks at a confrontation between Jack and Ralp, this exemplifies the complete loss of order and democracy. Simon liked to have time by himself to avoid the bickering between the other boys. Simon found a clearing away from everyone else and eventually stumbled across the beast that everyone in the tribe was so terrified by. Simon ran to tell the tribe that the beast was just a dead parachutist. However, while Simon was trying to explain that the beast was not real he was mistaken for the beast.
* On the other end of the social system would be savagery, the total breakdown of the social system leaving the majority in serious danger. | When did the boys start to become savage? | - Jack is the first one who becomes savage he goes hysterical over killing a pig. - They boys suddenly painted their faces thinking they would become a true hunter. - The boys split into two tribes , one civilized and the other uncivilized.
Through the story, we see the boys loose their ability to stay civil and an example is, “The conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist” (181). This shows that as the boys started to become savage, they lost all their ability to be civil. Also, since Piggy still believed in the good and civility in people, when he died and the conch broke, we could see that they lost all touch to their past, civil lives. As the boys become more savage, they start becoming what they feared most, the Beastie. To the boys, the Beastie is portrayed as a wild beast that they must hunt down and is a higher power, but what the beast symbolizes is the human reaction to fear.
Piggy continue to complain about the inefficient group effort in surviving. Suddenly a nearby tree catches on fire and Piggy realize that the six year old boy who talked about the “beastie” is gone. With things going bad, the remaining boys in the group pretend nothing happened. Chapter 3: Jack attempts to hunt a pig for the second time but the pig escaped.
A couple lines down Eddie tells us his best friend from high school had died as well. He tells us on page three, “all of them on their racks of black, black earth.” Where he lived they would kill someone for little to any reason. On page three as well “He had died all because he told another guy he had yellow shoes” talking about his cousin. Through the hole book his life was even danger. Samuel had chased Eddie with a knife trying to stab him throughout most of the book.
Jack is getting on my last nerve. He and his posse of choir kids went to fulfill Jacks desire to kill a pig and in doing this they let the fire die out. Ralph and I were down on the beach while this was happening. Ralph saw some smoke on the sea's horizon. I felt my heart jump, because you know how bad I want to go home.
Piggy’s name suggests that he will be a victim of the beast. Not the beast the boys on the island fear, but the beast within the boys themselves. The author is saying through Piggy that because they kill and eat the pigs they become the beast. Ralph prays to the adult world to send them something from the grownups: a sign. His prayer is answered by a dead parachutist, a casualty of war from the fighting going on in civilized society.
By the end of the story, the Misfit ends up killing the whole family. Even though the Misfit kills this family, he is not fully responsible for his actions. The Misfit kills because he has had a terrible childhood, he is mentally unstable, and he simply likes what he does. The Misfit is a killer, but may not be responsible for all of his actions because of his awful childhood. While he was a child his own father did not think he was normal, "My daddy said I was a different breed of dog from my brothers and sisters" (O'Connor).
He proposes that they should build a fire on the mountain to signal any passing ships wherein, Piggy’s glasses became a useful object in the process of starting a fire. After the fire was made, Piggy protests and criticizes the boys for not making a shelter first and worries that one boy is already missing after they failed to know the total number of boys there are. Jack continues to hunt for pigs and Ralph leads the building of shelters for the boys while Simon, the only one who has always helped Ralph and Piggy, journey the island on his