- Throughout the book, we discovered the different personalities in most of the boys. Some of them came across as the most innocent people ever, in the beginning, but eventually, they became very violent and twisted. At the beginning, most people were shy and very easy to get along with, but towards the end of the book, when everything was falling apart, personalities changed. When Simon came to tell everyone that the so called 'beast' was actually a dead man with a parachute, everyone attacked him and killed him with their spears. This goes to show how the innocence ended and how the darkness in their hearts got the best of them and changed them into completely different people.
Symbols are everywhere in LotF - pick 2 that really stood out to you and discuss their importance to the story.
- The first symbol I noticed right off in the book was the conch. Ralph, the 'chief', would blow the conch to get all of the boys together for meetings. This became a big part of the book, for they would have meetings every day. The boys made a rule that in order to be able to talk during the meetings, you must be holding the conch. Eventually, Jack got fed up with the whole idea of the conch in general, and threw a fit about it. This was the beginning the big split between the boys on the island.
-The second symbol I noticed was the pig head. Jack and the rest of the hunters killed a sow, and cut its head off and placed it on this stake, basically as a symbol of victory. When Simon went into the woods and found the pig head on the stake, he realized that it was the "Lord of the flies." He thought that it was talking to him and telling him that there was no beast on the island, except for the beasts inside of the children. Right after the talk with the pig head, Simon passed out. Later, Ralph came across the pig head as well, except when he got there, it was mostly skull. He used the stake that the pig head was on, to save himself from Jack and the rest of Jack's crew.
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