Who Is The Conch In Lord Of The Flies

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Shaakirah Keith April 17, 2012 Golding wrote a novel called Lord of the Flies explaining the adventure of a group of schoolboys who settled on an unknown island after a plane crash. It comes to be that there are no adults, except for the pilot, but to bad he's no where to be found. The boys have to learn how to survive on their own and make choices for theirselves since there are no adults around. Not only that, but take responsibility by looking after one another since there are children as young as six years old. Ralph and Piggy, discover a conch shell on the beach, which later becomes important to the boys and has an even bigger meaning behind it. When the boys meet up together for the first time, they have to choose a leader, which they leater theregret. Throughout the struggles of the characters, the conch symbolizes humans' need for rules and structure order…show more content…
[The boys have been having disagreements lately over several things and feels as though they dont need the conch no more. Jack points out] "We don't need the conch anymore. We know ought to say things" (Golding 102). At the middle of the novel, the majority of the boys start to value the conch less to the point where they feel as though they don't need it no more. This has brought them to the point where they began to seperate because of their disagreements. As the conch become less valuable, they began to act less civilized. They began to act less civilized by not listening to one another and not following the rules that was established when the boys first arrived on the island. Golding reveals the importance of the conch and why is it needed. He shows this by showing how the boys become out of hand and dont listen to one another. They feels as though the conch is not needed no more and they could do good without it. In reality though, they do need the conch so things can stay in
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