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Post by Wyatt Waldyke on Apr 17, 2020 13:44:38 GMT
The conch was viewed as a symbol of order and the standards of society, it was looked at by all the boys as a piece of control. This was of course only in the beginning. The boys as they stayed longer on the island they became more savage and didn't care about what order was supposed to be, they care about the hunt. In the end the boys end up destroying the conch and symbolically there is no order left. In the novel this conch was away of bringing all the boys together to create plans and to call the boys to order, towards the end they see it as a remembrance of a way of life before the hunt, this lead them to greatly dislike it and hence they would destroy it. This symbol is destroyed in the end, because the boys see it as a reminder of the order they had, all that matters now to them is the hunt and only the hunt.
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Post by Autumn Davis on Apr 17, 2020 14:14:36 GMT
Piggy's glasses seem to represent the use of science and technology/tools in this society of boys. At the beginning, the glasses are fully functional as both Piggy's way of seeing and a way of making fire. However, as the novel passes, Piggy's glasses become more and more broken, just like the value of being sensible becomes broken. When Piggy is without his glasses, he is weak and cannot fend for himself: "'Ralph! Don't leave me!' With ludicrous care he embraced the rock, pressing himself to it above the sucking sea" (176). This parallels the society of boys, where their integrity and morals break down the more that they drift away from intuition. At the end of the novel, Piggy, who is without his glasses, is hit by a rock which splits his skull open and flings his body into the ocean. This seems to foreshadow the destruction of the boys' society through their lack of insight and the way that they manipulate valuable resources.
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Post by Madden on Apr 17, 2020 16:16:56 GMT
The beast symbolizes the fear on the island. At the begging of the book the beast was just a figure of the littluns imagination but as the book progressed the beast became more real and instilled fear among them all. "-and then, the beast might try to come in. You remember how he crawled... He came-disguised. He may come again..." (Golding 160). The beast is there to cause anger and conflict between the 2 groups of boys, and is a way for jack to keep hes group/tribe in control. The beast ultimately becomes the demise of the boys because they all start to act out because of the fear and end up killing one another.
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Post by Shea Cranston on Apr 17, 2020 18:18:40 GMT
The fire represents their connection to the civilized world. The burning is almost like the amount of desire they have to get back to civilization. At the beginning, they are eager to get back and keep the fire going and as big as possible. as the novel charts its course, they slowly forget about going back home and rather focus their attention on the savagery of the island. The fire slowly burn out over the course symbolizing them falling to the whims of the island. as the fire goes out completely, they are in the full depths of their delusion and allow one of their own to die, not even realizing it until civilization forces its way back into their world when people come to rescue them.
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Post by Oscar Hackstaff on Apr 17, 2020 18:19:32 GMT
Piggy´s glasses symbolized survival because Piggy needed them to see and the boys needed them for fire. The only reasons why Piggy was not killed was because of his glasses and Ralph. Piggy was worthless and weak without the glasses. Without the glasses piggy is like a one legged dog, piggy said, ¨Ralph! Don´t leave!¨ (Golding 176). At the beginning the glasses were in good condition, but at the end the glasses were broken, but still usable. The purpose of the glasses was to show how they can survive and the boys got greedy and took the glasses.
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Post by Tiana Phi on Apr 17, 2020 20:49:51 GMT
The fire represents the connection that the boys still have to the human civilization. It is a sign that they still can be recognized and saved from someone out there. If there is still fire, it can create a possible way for them to get reached. "There's another thing. We can help them to find us. If a ship comes near the island they may not notice us. So we must make smoke on top of the mountain. We must make a fire."
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Post by emeli rubel on Apr 17, 2020 23:42:08 GMT
In the novel, the fire represents the hope and reassurance of going home. Ralph is in control of the boys as long as the fire is burning. It also gives hope because the boys are assuming that someone will eventually see the fire and save them. After Jack stole the fire, it starts to burn out which resembles their hope fadings. When the fire goes completley out, for Ralph, he knows that he doesn't have the power over anyone anymore. He has accepted that Jack won.
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Post by Magdalena McCormick on Apr 21, 2020 15:46:00 GMT
The Conch represents the civil of society, the part of society where nations and people can get along and there is essentially peace. The Conch keeps the boys going as well as engaged in their activities and work. It also represents the power and the different levels of respect. There is a level of democracy attached to the Conch, when they first crashed only the person holding it could speak. The Conch becomes less respectable as the boys start to disregard and not care as much. The conch still serves as a very large symbol in the book. I think the Conch represent the situation the boys would rather be in.
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Post by Maddie Van Haveren on Apr 23, 2020 7:16:09 GMT
In LOTF, the signal fire that the boys build on the island symbolizes the hope that the boys have to go home, and it represents a feeling of safety. Throughout the book, Ralph often points to the fire as a way to rally the boys and give them hope that they'll be rescued. As long as the fire is burning, the boys have at least a little bit of hope that they'll eventually get to go home and it makes them feel safer knowing they won't be on the island forever. We can see this when Ralph thinks about the fire and how "There was something good about the fire. Something overwhelmingly good."
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Post by Adrianna Castillo on May 1, 2020 21:30:11 GMT
The conch represents order and democracy in a place with no order. It symbolizes a possible civil society and understanding between the boys, like an unspoken followed rule that they all respect. It represented power to them. Ralph had been the one who found the conch and used it to call the boys so almost automatically the boys agreed to make him their leader. ”I’ll give the conch to the next person to speak. He can hold it when he’s speaking.” (Golding 33), they started establishing rules based on the conch, but eventually when the other tribe was formed the conch started losing its power and the boy's their innocence. Eventually Piggy tried defending the power of the conch but got killed in the process and the conch got destroyed as well.
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Post by Christina saiz on May 11, 2020 22:08:39 GMT
Basically the whole book just represents democracy upon people such as piggy getting criticized for trying to to bring the group together to work together to survive but no one does what he says so they end up struggling. The conch symbolizes great and hard work by Ralph and piggy trying to get every one to just help one another. The fire is a symbol of them actually trying to work together and try to get back home but things cant get hard for them if they don't keep the fire going. When they all started to struggle piggy and Ralph tried their hardest to try to calm them down. the conch is a main thing for all of them to get together and just to get a plan together which symbolizes civilization basically.
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Post by Kat Davis on May 15, 2020 5:34:12 GMT
On the island, the conch shell is a symbol of power, in that whoever has it is the chief or leader. At the beginning of the novel, the conch is described as being beautiful, creamy, and white, the symbol of a pure society, untainted by evil, but by the end of the novel, the conch has faded and lost its value, a symbol for a tainted, impure society in which the sin of humanity has been exposed. The conch is what first decides that Ralph is chief because he is the one who finds it on the shore immediately after the crash. However, by chapter nine, its already lost its meaning as Jack writes it off as not mattering on the side of the island which he lays claim to. By the end of the novel, the conch shell is completely worthless and does nothing to establish order between the now savage group of boys. It's a symbol of good losing to evil.
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