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Piggy Lord Of The Flies Chapter Summary
“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
“Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
“We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything.”
“The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away.”
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?”
“The rules!" shouted Ralph, "you're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?”
“the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”
“Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?”
“Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!”
“If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had
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He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.”
“We musn't let anything happen to Piggy, must we?”
“The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.”
“I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.”
“And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.”
Ralph and jack are a good form of Duality, when good and evil come together in conflict. savages barbarians brutes thugs beasts this unlawfully behavior.

Dark; violent; pessimistic; tragic; unsparing
1 ”rising action The boys assemble on the beach. In the election for leader, Ralph defeats Jack, who is furious when he loses. As the boys explore the island, tension grows between Jack, who is interested only in

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