The boys establish a rule that only the person holding the conch shell can speak at their meetings. This rule helps maintain order and ensures that everyone has a chance to be heard.
The boys in "Lord of the Flies" make rules about holding the conch shell during meetings. The rule is that only the person holding the conch has the right to speak, ensuring order and fairness during their discussions and decisions on the island.
In "Lord of the Flies," blowing the conch represents order, authority, and communication. It is used to gather the boys together, call for meetings, and establish a sense of structure and civilization on the island. As the novel progresses and the boys descend into chaos, the conch loses its power and significance.
Piggy sees the conch, and he and Ralph work as a team to get it out and blow it. This helps them to call all the boys together at the beginning, and when they want to call a meeting. They also make the rule that obly the person holding the conch can talk in an assembly. This results in the conch being a symbol for law and orede, and when it is destroyes, it symbolises the start of true savagery.
Jack rules by imposing punishments on the boys. He controls them through brutal force. The conch is a symbol of civilization. On jack's side of the island, the conch holds no power. This is symbolic of how Jack and the other savages have lost all sense of civil behavior and have instead turned to savagery.
A conch is a type of mollusc, a sea snail, and the shell of a conch is used to make a loud "booming" sound in the novel Lord of the Flies. This sound is used to call the boys to meetings. The conch is also used to symbolise democracy in the novel, as whoever holds it has the right to uninterupted speech. The phrase "Conch Republic" is not used in the novel.
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The conch shell serves as a symbol of authority in "Lord of the Flies." The person holding the conch has the right to speak during meetings, signifying order and democracy among the boys on the island.
The boys develop a conch shell as a symbol of authority on the island. The person holding the conch shell has the right to speak during meetings and is given authority to be heard by the rest of the group.
The conch started out simply as a curiosity that Ralph spotted in the lagoon. Once it was retrieved from the water it became a tool, used to call the other boys to the location. During the first meeting Ralph indicated that the conch had the additional purpose of allowing its holder to speak uninterrupted by anyone else except himself. Because the conch called boys to meetings and was then used during the process of the meeting it became indelibly associated with the whole democratic process, whereby anyboy could speak, if he held the conch. The conch therefore came to symbolise the whole process which it was part of, the democratic ideal of the meetings, civilization, rule, law and order.
Ralph lays down the rule that only the person holding the conch shell has the right to speak during the assembly. This rule ensures order and fairness in discussions among the boys on the island.
In chapter 1, they find a conch shell and piggy relizes that the conch could be used as a horn to call all the other boys on the island. With that, they blow into the conch and many boys come to the beach.
In chapter 1, they find a conch shell and piggy relizes that the conch could be used as a horn to call all the other boys on the island. With that, they blow into the conch and many boys come to the beach.