Relationships and community in Lord of the Flies
por Jessica Poulsen
1. "I got the conch" said Piggy in a hurt voice. "I got a right to speak." (Golding 45)
1.1. The boys made the rules as a group, but they don't follow them when the rules are applying to Piggy. They don't seem to treat him as an equal because he is different than they are. The rules are important because they help keep everyone in line and rules also help people to feel like they are equal. The boys don't follow the rules as much as they should, and they are discriminating against Piggy because he is different.
2. " 'Let's be moving,' said Jack relentlessly, 'we are wasting time.' "No we're not. What about the littluns?" "Sucks to the littluns!" Someone's got to look after them." "Nobody has so far." "There was no need! Now there is. Piggy'll look after them." (Golding 101).
2.1. The boys are becoming more aware of each other. They are realizing the dangers that could be out there. They are becoming more of a community because they are looking out for the boys who can't take care of themselves as easily. They are losing some of their savage tendencies.
3. The meaning of this quote is that even though Piggy has pretty good ideas and is pretty smart, the boys completely ignore that fact and just focus on his physical disabilities. They don't listen to him and make fun of him because he's different.
4. "Who cares what you believe - Fatty." (Golding 90)
5. Even though Jack is a great hunter and gets them meat does not meant that he would not be like this as a leader. He would use fear as a main factor and dictate the community of boys. Piggy knows this will happen to not only him but everyone in the community.
6. This picture symbolizes how the boys are being prejudice against Piggy and judging him off of his looks; lack of brawn even though he has one of the cleverest brains of the entire gang. It shows how their community is not being civilized by acting prejudice.
7. It seems that the littleuns are starting to create their own little community away from the Biguns. They do still go to the meetings and from time to time participate in whole group activites. It seems that they might not want a strong relationship and community with any one else.
8. "The smaller boys were know now by the general name of littleuns" (Golding 59)
9. "The beach near the bathing pool was dotted with groups of boys waiting for the assembly. They made way for him silently, conscious of his mood and the fault at the fire" (Golding 77).
10. Even though the community is falling apart, the boys still want to keep some sort of relationship with Ralph and everyone else. They are still human and need to be with oother humans in a community, even if they are distant from each other.
10.1. This picture represents the community among the boys. Ralph is the red figure who tries to being people together and sometimes there are still people on the outside who want to remain distant from each other but the majority of them want to keep a good relationship among their community.
11. "Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar, and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg." (Golding 65)
12. The meaning of this quote is that just because the children are smaller or younger than the other boys, they are given a title that separates them from everyone else.
13. The meaning of this quote is as Piggy holds the conch and tries to speak, Jack interrupts him and makes it seem like no one cares because he's an outcast and no one likes him. Then he adds a rude remark about his weight.
13.1. This picture explains how the boys treat Piggy based upon his weight. They treat him as if he has no feelings, as if he has no voiced opinion and as if he is nothing but fat and lard. Although this picture is more modern and referring to overweight children as jelly-filled, it still gets the point across that still people treat them as the boys are doing to Piggy in this book.
14. "If Jack was chief, he'd have hunting and no fire. We'd be here till we died." (Golding 93)
15. The meaning of this quote is everyone thinks Jack is an amazing hunter and super manly but most of the boys don't believe he'd be a good chief because he"s a savage and only care about hunting, not getting rescued. If he ruled, it would be a dictatorship.
16. "For the first time that day, and despite the crowding blackness, Ralph sniggered." (Golding 165).
17. Ralph now finds the idea of getting rescued immediately, funny. He laughs as Piggy tells him they must get rescued soon.
18. The boys on the island are starting to come togehter in different ways than they awere before. The hunters are forming their own little community and buildinig a relationship togehter, the littlle uns are building a relationship togehter, and theen that leaves Simon, Piggy, and Ralph by themselves.
19. This is showing how people are discriminating against Piggy just because he is different than they are,
20. This means that even though Ralph tried to establish rules, the boys continue to break them by treating Piggy as an outcast instead of an equal.
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22. This means that even though the relationship between the boys is weak, they still seem to come back together because they realize that they're all the same in other ways.
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24. This picture represents how the boys are torn between choosing Ralph or Jack, They don't want to only choose one, so they stay in the middle of them both.
25. It seems that even though the island has gotten to all the boys heads, Ralph and some of the other boys brought back some sanity to the boys' lives.
26. Jack is starting to rub off on Ralph, because he is starting to not find the fire to be as important. Ralph has slowing been losing sight of what is important starting in the middle of the book and has always slightly been a bully to Piggy, but now it is finally coming out.
27. The way the boys banned together under one older boy is in a sense like how the lost boys follow and are "ruled" or lead by Peter Pan. Jack is like Peter Pan and the hunters are like the lost boys.
28. "Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere." (Golding 73)"
28.1. Ralph and Jack's relationship is getting worse and worse. Jack isn't respecting anyone and all he cares about is hunting. Raph is trying to prepare the boys for life here so they wont be as scared. He used to be fine with Piggy being bullied, but now he is standing up for him
28.1.1. This symbolizes the relationship with Jack and Ralph. It was pretty strong at the beginning of the book and then the one time a ship went by and he wasn't there to light the fire and that is when their relationship snapped.