In the Lord of the Flies the children descend into chaos and savagery from what little order they had. From order and civilization to chaos and savagery. Almost all of the kids descend into savagery but in the end they get rescued before they all become ‘savages’, all of them but Ralph who is still trying to stay civil that the good little British boy he is. The conch symbolizes order on the island but when the conch finally breaks the few remaining kids finally descend into savagery except for Ralph.
Lord of the Flies written by William Golding and published in 1954 is about a group of British boys that are stranded on an island with no adults. They have to try and survive and get rescued without their parents or adults to help them. They have very little order on the island and plenty chaos if not too much. William Golding uses a conch shell that the boys find as a symbol of order. Without order all will succumb to chaos and the conch in Lord of the Flies symbolizes this order.
On page 22 and 23 the kids elect a chief so they can try and keep some order on the island. The conch is used as a symbol of order for the children on the island. The kids need this order that the conch provides to live on the island. As the story progresses the boys see how order is changed and how it was established from the conch and electing a chief. William Golding is trying to say that without order and civilization all will succumb to chaos and savagery.
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Jack is the head boy in the choir group, all he wants to do is hunt and kill the pigs that they find on the island. The quote “Kill the pig. Cut her throat. Spill her blood.”(69) is repeated many times in the book but with slight variations but this is the first time it’s shown in the book. Jack is obsessed with killing the pig, he thinks he needs to redeem himself after he failed to kill the pig the first time. Jack is so obsessed with killing the pig that he and his hunting party leave the fire and let it go out losing their chance of getting rescued
