This is also true in William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies. They dreaded the conch and all that it represented so they destroyed it. It all began with a plane crash. A group of young British boys who were abandoned on a deserted island, left to salvage the little life they had left. There was Ralph, the chief. He wanted to be rescued with smoke from a fire on an orderly, civilized society. And Piggy, the outsider. Everyone made fun of him, harassed him and excluded him when all he wanted was to think about back home and everything he was forced to leave behind. Jack, the hunter. He wanted meat, he wanted to be leader and he wasn't going to stop until he got what he wanted. I believe that William Golding was trying to portray in his novel that the function and representations

of the conch were a tool of communication, the rules that formed and kept a civilized society, and power.

The conch also gives the boys rules and control. It displayed this numerous times. During the first afternoon the boys begin to form these regulations of their new society. "We'll have to have hands up like at school.' '...I'll give the conch to the next person to speak... and he won't be interrupted.' 'We'll have rules! Lots of rules!'" (pg. 29) One of the conch's main functions is that it gave the boys control in their lives. Without it they would not have had the same effective methods of authority that they did. It kept them orderly and civilized. It controlled them.

The conch provided who ever was in possession of it the right to speak. This is shown various times throughout the novel. One evening, Jack and Ralph called a meeti

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