Lord_of_the_Flies

Lord of the Flies Think to yourself how it would fell if your childhood were to be totally changed by a tragic incident. In which you got trapped on an island away from any civilization. In “Lord of the flies” William Golding shows just how terrifying and symbolic that this can be. There are many different objects in the book that one can easily make out to signify things in society. Among the symbols were the conch shell, their personality traits, and their clothing The Conch is a symbol of the high hand of authority on the island. It was use to call meetings, it is a magical object to the boys. For the most part the boys respect the Conch. Piggy who had the idea to “use this to call the others” first saw it. Which did work “After Ralph blew the shell a third time a child appear”. The conch was very powerful it shows when Ralph “… lifted the conch.” and said, “Seems to me we ought to have a chief to diced things”. The conch actually wins Ralph the position as chief. He got pick because “… his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerful there was lord, flies, ralph, boys, conch, society, island, piggy, out, jack, things, one, clothing, away, time, shows, said, rules, order, novel, fire, end, chief, yet, way, very, uniformed, think, system, symbols, symbol, start, should, ship