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    Lord of the Flies : The Importance of the Conch The conch is a seashell, cream in color, which is used as a tool to call people. Symbols in The Lord of the Flies is very important because it helps with communication and identification of ideas. The conch in The Lord of the Flies by William Golding represents power, responsibility and leadership.When the boys hold meetings around the camp fire, only the speaker who is holding the conch may address the crowd.. At times the conch was

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    The Lord of the Flies is the book! The author, William Golding, includes many objects with significant meaning. To begin, the conch shell is the object that first draws everyone together on the island. When Ralph blows into it, the boys that were once scattered all over the island follow the sound to find him. Additionally, throughout the book, the conch serves many purposes; it is used to specify who is allowed to speak and when. Furthermore, it indicates the start of each meeting. The conch is shattered

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    The conch shell is viable and important allowing for authority to be enforced, but as it began to break civilization crumbled with it. Lord of the Flies is a book focusing on a group of boys which have crash landed on an island without any adults forcing them into a new world of conflict and survival. The reader learns in the beginning of the book about two boys Ralph and Piggy who utilize the conch to send out a call which would notify anyone else on the island to come where they are. They meet

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    novel.In William Golding's Lord of the Flies, the conch symbolizes an aspect of law and civilization to the boys on the island who are corrupt. The first appearance of the conch is shown as a reckoning of purpose. For example, “meanwhile Ralph continued to blow till voices shouted in the forest… as he [ Johnny ] received the reassurance of something purposeful being done he began to look satisfied.” (page 18) Young Johnny was afraid of being deserted, but the sound of the conch brought peace of mind to

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    Lord of The Flies Imagine being stuck on an island with no adults, no shelter, and no rules. Living on an island with only kids yours age and younger. All of the boys stick together in order to protect one another. In the book Lord of the Flies, the boys get stuck on an island and set forward the idea of having rules. Although the rules work for only a couple of days, the rules were the cause of their civilization to fall apart and turn against each other.

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    In the novel, Lord of the Flies, author, William Golding, tells the story of a group of very young boys fleeing their war torn home in England. While trying to escape, their plane is shot down, and crashes. The pilots, along with the plane, are dragged out to sea, scattering and deserting the young group of boys on an unknown island. The island is a glorious paradise that contains an abundance of scrumptious fruit, luscious greenery, overwhelming heat and pink rock that covers the landscape. There

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    In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a plane crashes on an island and a group of children are stranded.The Lord of the Flies has many symbolic elements in the essay beginning from the title to the end of the novel. There were two elements that stood out to me; I want to examine the Conch Shell and the Signal Fire to show how the significance in the novel. The boys use the conch shell to indicate who has speaking rights at the moment. One boy says what is on his mind while holding

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    The classic novel “Lord of the Flies” was written by William Golding and published in 1954. The premise of this story is that an airplane full of boys from a military school crashes on an uninhabited island. There are no adults, and so the boys must try to survive and try to get rescued. One boy, Ralph, is elected the leader. He works closely with Piggy, who is often picked on but very intelligent. Jack is another character who is the leader of the hunters. He is obsessed with power and killing.

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    Lord of the Flies written by William Golding, is a novel full of symbols, many of them with diverse meanings. There are two main symbols of this novel that truly shows how the boys change from beginning to end. While there are more, this paper will only talk about two. The conch, and Piggy’s glasses which represents the boy's loss of civilization from society, effectively turning them into savages. The conch represents two main ideas, power, and order. When the conch is blown it calls all the boys

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    In William Golding’s Lord Of the Flies, the conch and many other objects are used as symbols to further establish the understanding of the story. The conch, originally discovered by Ralph and Piggy, was unintentionally used to signal the other survivors on the island. It was a physical shell whilst acting as a symbol for unity throughout the novel. In reality, accessories used to represent the idea of unity are wedding ring exchanged in a ceremony of marriage. Both the conch and a wedding ring can

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