While
the boys are asleep, an air battle takes place above the island, and a paratrooper is shot out
of the sky. The dead paratrooper ends up falling to the island and lands on the top of the
mountain. The dead paratrooper's descent onto the island
symbolically represents the presence and manifestation of evil on the island. The lifeless
paratrooper falling from the sky also allegorically represents Satan's fall from
heaven.
Oncereturn to the base camp, they begin describing the beast.decides
to organize an assembly and holds the conch. The conch symbolically
represents civility, democracy, and order. While the majority of boys respect the conch by
allowing the person holding the shell to speak without interruption,dismisses the conch's
importance by saying,
We dont need the conch any more. We
know who ought to say things...Its time some people knew theyve got to keep quiet and leave
deciding things to the rest of us.
Jack's attitude
toward the conch illustrates his...
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