Lord of the Flies
In the novel Lord of the flies by William Golding, the conch represents law, order, Ralph and Piggy discovered the conch in a lagoon on the island. At first Ralph said it was a shell but Piggy corrected him and said it was a conch and it could be used as a trumpet. Ralph blew in it and managed to make a loud sound that ended up getting everyone's attention. A group of choirboys march in with their leader Jack. Ralph and Jack agree that they need someone to lead so they make everybody vote. The vote was for Ralph to be the leader. The choir boys of course voted for Jack because he was their leader but everyone else voted for Ralph. Jack seems to really want to be in charge and to be the leader and when the vote was done he seemed disappointed. At this point the conch represents order and unity. After Ralph, Jack, and Simon return from exploring the island Ralph decides to call another meeting. He tells everybody that there are no adults on the island so they will have to be calm and wait to be rescued. He also made some ground rules for everybody to follow. One of the rules was: whoever holds the conch he will have the right to speak and
arrives to the tribe's campsite and when he gets there they are having a feast and because he saw the "fire signal" which was an accident because they were trying to get
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Approximate Word count = 1077
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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