Within the first couple of hours the children try to establish some rules and guidelines for everyone to follow. Everyone respects the conch as a symbol of authority. It is established that anyone who speaks with the conch in his hands must be listened to. One kid decides to create a list of everyone's names and establish some order. The boys build a signal fire to alert ships of their presence on the island. At first the children rely on law and order to ensure their miniature society's well-being. This sense of law does not hold for long however, because no one enforces these new set of rules.

The first form of deviance introduced in the book is conditional. This occurs when a person has a characteristic that has been present since birth or has acquired somet

A second form of deviance is when a person or group of people express a radical or unusual belief system. The choirboys seem like 'normal' children at first, however they dress differently than all the other children. The choir members each wore uniforms that were solid black. After a couple of days, they trade in their distinctive clothing for face paint. Golding tells the reader that with these masks, the boys felt "...liberated from shame and self-consciousness."

The most widely recognized form of deviance is behavioral, which is based on a person's intentional or inadvertent actions.

Jack is the leader of "deviant" group of boys. He makes it clear from the beginning that he wants to be the leader. Jack doesn't like or respect Ralph's authority over him, and therefor chooses to ignore it and follow his own rules. He declares that he and his choir will become the hunters, and he will be their leader. The violence inflicted on the pigs eventually takes a toll on the group. Their desire to kill transcends the necessity to obey. The reader begins to notice the boys' disregard to conformity when Roger and Maurice ar

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