Conch In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of the Flies By William Golding Ralph He's the first lost boy we meet, and he's definitely the best—after all, he's elected chief. He is good looking. He's "fair" (1.1) and "attractive." More than that, he has the conch. And he can blow it. Because the conch symbolizes power and order, because he has the conch he gets a head start in the island power structure. Instead of getting caught up in the hunting bloodlust, he proposes something practical, sensible, start a fire, and then watch it to make sure it doesn't go out. He's got nerve, too. When someone has to go look for the "beast," Ralph appoints himself. When he's scared, he "[binds] himself together with his will" (7.246), meaning that he's able to force himself to do something he
It's all fun and games and delicious pig belly until Simon stumbles in and the boys beat him to death.  Later, Ralph and Piggy convince themselves that it never happened.  When Jack's team steals Piggy's glasses, he and Ralph clean up and head over to get them back.  Ralph announces that he's calling an assembly, but it doesn't happen. Instead, Piggy falls off a cliff and dies.  Ralph is totally alone. He feels worse when Samneric sneak off to tell him that Jack's planning to kill him.  A huge fight involving sharpened sticks and fire.  Ralph is pretty convinced he's going to die, when suddenly a naval officer shows up to ask who's in charge.  When the officer asks who's boss, Ralph answers loudly that he is. He stares at the officer dumbly, hardly able to comprehend that the rescuers have finally arrived.  Ralph begins to cry, sobbing for the first time about Simon, about Piggy, about "the end of innocence, [and about] the darkness of man's heart. Jack For Jack, the island is like the best summer vacation ever. He gets to swear, play war games, hunt things, and paint his face—all without any grownups around to send him to his room for accidentally killing the neighbours. Like Ralph, Jack is charismatic and inclined to leadership. Unlike Ralph, he gets off on power and abuses his position above others. Jack is ugly. Well, according the narrator he is: he's "tall, thin,
As soon as there's no civilization to keep him in line, he—unlike Ralph—falls out of line. Jacks ability for evil is huge, he leads the brutal slaughter of a pig—and then Simon. He fosters (encourages) rebellion. He has his minions beat a kid named Wilfred for some unspecified misdeed. He throws a spear at Ralph with "full intention" (11), trying to kill him, and then sends the minions after him to finish the job. But he couldn't do any of this without power. And somehow, he gets it. When he leaves Ralph's group, he convinces the others to come with him by promising a hunt. The pre-teen boys aren't interested in Ralph's boy-scout team-building and fire-watching. They want blood. And once Jack gets control, he turns from a choir boy into a, well, this: A great log had been dragged into the center of the lawn and Jack, painted and garlanded, sat there like an idol… Power lay in the brown swell of his forearms: authority sat on his shoulder and chattered in his ear like an ape. "All sit down." The boys ranged themselves in rows on the grass before him but Ralph and Piggy stayed a foot lower, standing on the soft sand. Jack ignored them for the moment, turned his mask down to the seated boys and pointed at them with his spear. (9.37, 52-56) By the end of the book, Jack has become a subhuman terror, inspiring panic in Ralph and awe in the rest of the boys. Or has he? Throughout the whole story, we get little