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Lord Of The Flies

LORD OF THE FLIES

A symbol is an object that seems to have meaning attached. Actions can also be symbolic and sometimes even characters or what they do or what happens to them can symbolize an idea. In Lord of the Flies Golding makes extensive use of symbols to make important points.
In the beginning of the novel when the civilization between the boys has been made a boy named "Piggy," gets teased and ridiculed for being overweight. He is in their minds a nerd. Even though the boys think that Piggy is a nerd they don't know that he is in actuality the smartest boy among the group. When the group has to start a fire on the island in order to keep warm and to notify anyone that they are abandoned Ralph shouts: " Piggy! Have you got any matches?" of course Piggy has none, but then Jack pointed at his glasses suddenly. "His specs-use them as burning glasses!"(p.40, LOTF). They use Piggy's glasses to reflect light onto dried sticks and grass to do so. Piggy's glasses symbolize the......


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