Lord of the Flies Outline

The conch a significance a powerful symbol of civilization.The shell governs the boys meetings and the respect they have with each other.For example as the novel progress the conch, “we can use this to call the others. Have a meeting, they'll come when they hear this.”(Golding 22)Piggy tells ralph that blowing the conch anyone else on the island will come when they hear it. It symbolizes the forces that brought the boys together.Later the conch becomes disrespected and cannot hold everyone together anymore. The boys become savages and lose every resource they have to survive in the island.Jack and Ralph feud “I’m chief and i've got the conch ralph says, Jack responds you don’t have it with you and the conch doesn't count at this end of the

The conch is a symbol in the novel and represents civilized authority and democracy. When the group of boys are stranded on the island, they choose Ralph as the

The boys’ beginning on the island starts with a very positive and playful atmosphere. To begin, Ralph and Piggy find a conch shell that they think will help call

The Conch showed the unity of the boys too. Ralph used it for calling an assembly, and communicate with others and keeping the peace between the boys. When they just got to the island, Piggy and Ralph met and found the Conch, Ralph tried to blow it and finally, he knew how to make a noise with it, and he got an idea with blowing the Conch. " 'We can

Still, the symbolic significance of this mundane yet, elegant object is overwhelming. It holds so much importance and has immense value in the hearts of the boys and the readers. As it breaks, it feels as, if not one, but two characters have been lost. Honestly, there is no true abstract concept that can completely explain the symbolism of the conch shell. Of course, people can try to write about what it means and what it has taught them, but truthfully nobody can quite put it into words how important this shell is. It is such a thought-provoking and influential source of inspiration and hope of rescue, that it is almost forgotten it is a conch shell that holds no real

The conch is just a shell, But it does represents much more than that, the conch is power, order, respect and civility and when it's broken, It’s the loss of civilization. The conch is first found by Piggy and Ralph when they first get to the beach. Piggy who’s seen one before at someones house said “He used to blow it and then his mum would come. It’s ever so Valuable”(11). Then later Ralph used it to do the same thing by blowing in it to find all the boys on the island and to call meeting later. During one of the

After the boys were marooned on the island, each was alone and unaware of the presence of the other boys. Ralph discovered the conch shell along with his new companion, Piggy. They identified the conch and blew it to bring forth any boys surviving the crash. He continued to blow the conch until, “The sand...concealed many figures in its miles of length” (Golding 18). As the newly discovered children gathered together, order was established throughout the tribe due to the effectiveness of the conch, and the leadership of Ralph. At this point, people obeyed the conch and followed the rule that allows the holder to speak freely. Grudgingly, the people listened to the chief to keep themselves alive, because he was a person of confidence and leadership. However, over time, this motivation slowly started to decrease and the rules were less obeyed. Therefore, the discovery of the conch symbolizes the discovery of order on the island. This is shown because once society starts to fall apart, so does the obedience to the conch.

For a few days the boys run wild over the island. Ralph steps up and tries to set up things to try and bring civilization back into the group. “If we have a signal going, they’ll come and take us off. And another thing we thought to have more rules. Where the conch is, that’s where we're meeting. The same up here as down here”(Golding 42). Ralph know that there a lot of chaos going on right now and he needs to make rules faster before it gets out of hand. One of the first one’s was the conch. Ralph made this item important to the whole group, giving it significant value. Where the conch is at, that’s where the meeting will be held because he will blow the shell really loud so everyone can hear it. To add on to this idea, I have another quote that is similar to the lasts idea about the conch. “Whoever holds the conch gets to speak”(Golding ). This shows that Ralph wants others to have their opinion too, but not all at the same time screaming at each other. This alouds everyone to have it say because if you have the conch everyone must listen and wait to say everything until they get the conch. Ralph is trying his best to try and get the boy’s civilized again by setting up rules that everyone must

The conch is a symbol of democratic power at the beginning of the story. First, it is used to gather the boys. Ralph blows the conch to assemble them

In the book, The Lord of the Flies, a group of boys survived a plane crash, when it was shot down and are stuck on an island by themselves. The boys voted for a guy named Ralph, who was the oldest,  to to be in charge of decisions they needed to make in order to get organized and survive. Ralph knew that food was important and chose Jack to lead some of the guys to hunt.      There were pigs on the island, that the hunters tried to capture.  Ralph and his sidekick Piggy find a large shell, called a conch shell on the beach and decide that they could use it to call out to everyone to gather around for meetings. Whoever is holding the conch shell gets to speak. Ralph decides that they should light a big fire on the top of a mountain, so that if a boat came near or plane flew by, they would see that there was life on the island.  Jack was an arrogant and stubborn guy and he volunteered the hunters to be in charge of keeping the fire lit throughout the day and night. After the first couple days the smaller kids start having nightmares from being on the island, and hearing strange sounds.  They thought there was a scary beast that hiding and walking around the island. The older kids try to comfort them and tell them there are no beasts.

Ralph and Piggy believe that Jack and his tribe are after the conch, and leave it behind when they go to see what is going on at the other side of the island. Jack then begins to signal to the audience and the boys that the conch is now useless. It is has no meaning to anyone on the island, specifically his tribe. He indicates this statement by saying, “ You left it behind… and the conch doesn’t count on this side of the island-”(150).This passage from the novel exemplifies how the boys have lost their sense of command and order within one another. The message from the statement made by Jack is guiding the reader to see how each boy is transforming into a more ruthless individual, not caring about any rules or individuals in their lives. With author, William Golding, having the conch’s purpose be lost and forgotten begins to exhibit the children’s loss of reason within one another.

This passage is a demonstration of loss of hope and the strength of civilized instinct. Ralph’s hope has decreased when there is no one beside him but a few biguns and a few littluns, his strength of civilized instinct diminishes causing him to forget why there needed to be a signal fire in the first place, until Piggy reminds him of the fact. He proclaims he did not forget even though he did, however he does not own up to it.

One of the most important symbols in Lord of the Flies is the conch shell. It represents law, order and power. The shell was the only way to gather everybody from their scattered places on the island. When the conch was blown the boys knew that the chief had something important to say. Once everyone was gathered at the meeting, the holder of the shell was the only person allowed to speak. In the novel, Golding compared the conch shell to its opposite; the pig’s head. The head contradicted the shell because it characterized chaos and terror. The shell also emphasized that power is fake. A flag is no more meaningful than the conch that Ralph had. It’s the meaning behind it and the meaning that people give it that makes it important. Rules are only powerful if everyone agrees on them. Ralph realized this once Jack left and took most of the group with him. If he blew the conch and no one came, the shell would lose all of its power. “If I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” (Golding 124) When the conch breaks, so does Ralph’s power and Jack takes his spot as chief.

Throughout the novel, however, the value of the conch shell begins to disintegrate. The conch shell emulates structure among the boys, and without it, the boys begin to lose their rationality. In chapter five even Ralph begins to realize the value of the conch shell is in danger. He is worried if he tries to reassemble a disbanded meeting that the boys will ignore him and forget the importance the conch shell holds. As time on the island begins to pass the value of the once almighty conch loses more and more significance. When Ralph visited Jack’s newly established camp that's when the other boys completely disregarded any authority the conch shell once possessed. Finally, in chapter eleven when

The conch is seen as one of the major symbols of the novel. The conch can symbolize a democratic government. The conch has brought the boys together, formed their society. The conch has made their rules and regulations. In the book no one was suppose to talk unless they had the conch. Halfway through the book the conch starts losing its power. The boys split up into two different tribes. The conch symbolizes the rise and the fall of society’s rules, order, and regulation. It made people understand how much rules and regulations are important in a world’s society. Therefore, the conch mad the “Lord of the Flies” a smaller version of what our society is today.