The author gives a symbol to almost every thing in The Lord of the Files  and 
            
 representational meaning in terms of the theme of the development of evil on the island. 
            
 The boys represent different personality traits. Examples would be the bully, and the 
            
 adventurer. They show the diversity in an actual society. The weird rituals, symbolize the 
            
 increasing powers of evil.  The conch was a very big symbol. It showed authority within 
            
 their group. It also could show order and stability.  Who ever held it had the chance of 
            
 speaking and giving their opinions. When it broke, it seemed as though everything turned 
            
 to complete chaos. The landscape of the Island seemed to also represent human qualities; 
            
 for example, the jungle the darkness of the human spirit, the ocean the destructiveness of 
            
 man, the platform reason, the mountain hope. The boulder that was used to kill Piggy and 
            
 Jack's knife represent the violence and evil of the boys. In the book there was a cycle of 
            
 man's rise to power, and his inevitable fall from that power . The Lord Of The Flies 
            
 symbolizes this fall in different ways. One minute it was a pig running freely around the 
            
 island and then the next a prisoner, and then killed. Almost like they boys opinion, at  first 
            
 they had their own say in allot of matters but as time went on it seemed as though they 
            
 kept quite, in fear of Jack's doings. 
            
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