nd and wishes to spend his time hunting instead of helping Ralph with rescue. When he is told to watch the fire he goes off hunting and causing a ship to pass him by. “ There was a ship out there. You said you will keep the fire going and you let it out.” Jack was for him self at all times and when things didn’t go his way he got made and said, “ I’m not going to play with you any longer. Not with you.” Piggy symbolizes knowledge and morality. Without Piggy to help Ralph it is very possible that Ralph may have lost sight of things and given in to the Beast. “Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering.” Jack, who, throughout the novel removes the forces opposing him, is scornfully afraid of Piggy and eventually kills him to eliminate his moral influence on the group.Many often over look clothing as a symbol in the “Lord of the flies”. Mainly because clothes in American society is look at as an everyday necessitate. As the boys clothing start to turn into rags the island becomes chaotic, the democracy is overthrown and all their rules are discarded. When the boys first arrive they are dress “ in school uniforms; gray, blue, fawn, jacketed or jerseyed.” Even Jack and his choir are uniformed. When they are uniformed everyone acted orderly. As the boys clothing starts to wear away, the rules the originally follows fades away. The boys who are supposed to be helping Ralph are not, they are found playing. “They [are] dirty, not with the spectacular dirt of boys who have fallen into mud or been brought down hard on a rainy day. Not one of them was an obvious subject for a shower, and yet – hair, much too long, tangled here and there, knotted round a dead leaf or a twig; faces cleaned fairly well by the process of eating and sweating but marked in the less accessible an...
