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speak and be heard, but not everyone listened to him and even fewer considered his ideas, whereas
Bruno succumb to the same fate and was constantly suppressed for his outlandish ideas. In Bruno
and Piggy's suppressions, its possible to deduce that society whether as a single person or group
has a tendency to place itself and what it knows above others, proving the idea or our innate
" " I'm chief," said Ralph tremulously. "And what about the fire? And
" "You haven't got it with you," said Jack, sneering. "You left it
behind. See, clever? And the conch doesn't count at this end of the island--"
All at once the thunder struck. Instead of the dull boom there was a
" "The conch counts here too, " said Ralph, "and all over the island."1
This argument between Ralph and Jack displays how Ralph believes the conch shell gives him the
power that whatever he says is right. But on the other side Jack doesn't listen to Ralph because he
is the leader of his own tribe thus believing what he says is always right. Although this is an
excerpt from a Lord of the Flies, a novel, Golding displayed reality through story and it displays
how we as a society often force our opinions and ideas upon others if we have some sort of
authority over them. This controversy does not directly involve Piggy but it relates to him in that
he used the conch often so that his views and ideas could be heard. Feeling the conch gave him the
right to speak, Piggy usually had ideas which would benefit all the boys and not just himself, but
after the separation of boys, no one would really listen to him. Many of the boys thought what
they were doing was the best for them and Piggy was trying to impose what he thought would help
improve the boys lives on the island. Although Piggy was being heard for his ideas he was not
always ...