Meaning: When Ralph and Piggy go to Jack’s tribe in order to retrieve the latter’s glasses, Jack and his savage bunch resort to their uncouth ways in response. “Which is better-to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?” ― Piggy He uses logic to guide and protect the members of his group. He shows a side of him that can distinguish fear from eminent danger when he tells the boys that fear is just like their nightmares―it enters into their mind and goes away without really harming anyone. Meaning: Ralph said this to the boys in the assembly when they are discussing the possibility of a beast residing in the island―a fear voiced by the littluns, and whether this fear was rational. “The thing is – fear can’t hurt you more than a dream.” ― Ralph He is smart and knows how to use the things around him to his advantage in order to deal with a situation that he has not experienced before. Meaning: Piggy refers to the conch shell that he and Ralph found on the shore. Basically, their primal instincts were still unexplored. This shows us the innocence that was still within them when they had first set foot, or rather ended up on this island, and that they still showed the qualities they had held in civilization and were truly unaware of what they were capable of. Meaning: While the rest of the children were eager to witness their leaders perform the duty of lighting the fire, Ralph and Jack were too ashamed to admit that neither of them knew how to go about it. The shameful knowledge grew in them and they did not know how to begin confession.” ― Narrator (on Ralph and Jack) “Ralph and Jack looked at each other while society paused about them. In other words, it shows us that although on the fence, order still existed somewhere within the children. Meaning: Although Roger had the inner urge to hurt the ‘littlun’, as the young boys in the group were called, he was held back by the morals and norms that society had instilled in them, and it felt as if some form of structure still existed, and that the social institutions like law, the cops, parents, and the school were still invisibly guarding Henry from the savage nature that resided within Roger.
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