... Ralph declares that they must light a signal fire that passing ships might see. The boys begin to do so, using the lens from Piggy *s eyeglasses as a means of igniting dead wood. But they are more interested in playing than in paying close attention to their duties, and the fire quickly ignites the forest. A large swath of dead wood burns out of control. One of the youngest boys disappears, presumably ... having burned to death. At first, the boys enjoy their life without grownups. They splash in the lagoon and play games, though Ralph complains that they should be maintaining ... Ralph...

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... and respect. Two other children, Jack, the head of a choir group, and Simon, a small but intellectual boy, accompany Ralph on an expedition to determine whether the land is truly an island. They find that it is indeed true, and compose a plan to light a fire on the beach to create smoke; their only hope of rescue. After they obtain the glasses of an intelligent and rather fat child called ... "Piggy," they make a fire using the sunlight and glass lenses. However, the fire spreads to the forest quickly and destroys the group's supply of firewood. The boys shrug this off as an accident an...

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... many occasions that makes him like the brain of Ralph. He gives Ralph the right opinions and decisions. Ralph chose Jack to be the leader of the hunters. Jack, Ralph, and Simon go off on a walk to explore the island. When they return, Ralph says that they must light a signal fire to attract attention of passing ships, so they could be rescued. The boys listened and lit a fire ... with Piggy's eyeglasses. Piggy's eyeglasses is another important object withing the society of the island because it demonstrate the intelligence, how they used science and order on the island. It later gives t...

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... weep, "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." Symbolically the loss of innocence is most visibly portrayed by the glade Simon finds at the beginning. It appears enchanted, perfect, the epitome of good. "The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light." The only occupants of the clearing are a pair of "gaudy butterflies that danced round ... corrupted when the boy with the mulberry coloured birthmark is burnt in a storm of fire and death. From there on, t...

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... with so terrible an understanding? Like Jesus, he is killed. (Spitz. 24-5) Piggy is the voice of reason. He is the outsider. He alone shows marks of intelligence; he can think; he has brains. When he wears his spectacles he can see. Those same spectacles not only shed light; they make possible the lighting of the fire which is meant to be seen. And when he is deprived ... of those spectacles, he loses his rationality too. He has a sense of what is required for society. Playing is absurd to Piggy. He refuses to enter this imaginary universe ... Jack approaches with his choir from the da...

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