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- "fair" - personality and appearence, links to people picking attractive leaders
- "we're English" - WW2, pride, Queen
- "why do things break up like they do?" - confused, youth, cant understand why people become savage, not like simon
- Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of mans heart and the fall through the air of a true, wise friend called Piggy" - youth, innocence, links to the truth about the beast.
- "Shell" - relf finds it and uses it, symbolizes civilisation
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- Ideal Leader - "im cheif" - "lets have a vote" - "you voted for me" - "i've got the conch"
- Protagonist - "fair" - "elected leader - wants to get rescued
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- "took off his shorts and pants" - shedding off civilization, symbolizes rebirth
- "Ralph too was fighting to get near, to get a handful of that brown, vulnerable flesh. The desire to squeeze and hurt was over-mastering" - everyone has an inner evil - the beast
- "At once the crowd surged after it, poured down the rock, leapt on to the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore. There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws" - Killing Simon, they all took part, killing innocence and good, end of religion, turning point in the novel
- "The tears began to flow and sobs shook him. He gave himself up to them now for the first time on the island" - return of civilisation, shows youth and innocence
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- 12 and a few months
- ideal leader
- believes in civilisation
- his father is in the navy - believes he will be rescued
- not perfect - succums to inner evil
- civilisation
- democracy
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