... their island civilization. The shell also represents order and justice. This civilized world is at first successful, but progressively falls apart as the evil inside the boys grows, and eventually turns them into cruel savages. "Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them... Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law." This quotation from Lord of the Flies shows that without rigid rules in ... a society, anarchy and savagery will result. The boys had been on the island for quite some ... ...

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