the real world isn't doing any better then they were doing on the island. Jack objects to doing things that Ralph tells the whole group of the boys to do, as well he objects to Ralph's being chief. Ralph still believes in the conch, and thinks it still holds some order: "Jack! Jack! You haven't got the conch! Let me speak." Again Ralph refers to the rules: "'The rules!' shouted Ralph, 'you're breaking the rules!'" Jack replies with: "Who cares?" His reply is short and stabbing. Once Jack says this, the reader knows that there is no turning back. The conversation continues: "Because the rules are the only thing we've got!" And to end the argument about rules, Jack says: " Bollocks to the rules!..." Jack then protests to using the conch: "'Conch! Conch!' shouted Jack, 'we don't need the conch anymore.'" Ralph later thinks to himself: " The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away..." The conflict between the two of them, which was also caused by different views on the existence of a beast, culminate when Jack decides to separate from Ralph. When the groups separate, neither of them profit from it, only Ralph and Piggy realize this. Ralph's group is not big enough to keep the signal fire going, and Jack and the hunters do not have Piggy's glasses to make their own fire, to roast their pigs. Since most of the boys have lost the need for civilization and the hope of being rescued, Ralph has lost control of them. They now fear the beast, and Jack tells the boys that if they are hunters they can protect themselves from the beast. So now Jack gets control of most of the boys. Ralph loses hope: "I'm frightened. Of us. I want to go home. O god I want to go home." But Piggy was there to help him out of his slump for a bit. But when Piggy is killed, Ralph is helpless and desperate. He is alone and it seems that Ralph's common sense has ent...
