This is crucial to the novel because it not only gives Lord of the Flies an ending by having them rescued because of the fire but it also blatantly shows that the small loss of control or civility resulted in the death of a little "un in the beginning of the novel. ... (p. 225) Therefore without Piggy's sense of reality or civilization by his reference to the outside world, deep concern for the conch or political order, and that all order is lost when he is killed, this book would not have a very valid point or purpose to illustrate to the reader. ... Lord of...

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