Lord of the flies allegory assignment

Piggy says, “ Cause the smokes a signal and we can’t be rescued if we don’t have smoke” (Gilding 73). In this case Piggy finds fire as a positive and wants it to be saved. Interestingly enough destruction at the end of this novel lead to the boys rescue. So does this mean destruction and the same importance as survival? An extreme example of this can be seen as the Nazi Regime. Germany’s economy was atrocious and they needed a leader to “ survive” the hard times. They elected Hitler to save the country, instead he destroyed it.

So destruction has the same importance of being saved. “ The fire reached the coconut palms by the beach and swallowed them noisily. A flame, seemingly detached, swung like an acrobat and licked up the palm heads on the platform. The sky was black,” (Gilding 201). This proves that because of such destruction to the island (fire), it was the only reason the boys were saved. Hunting the mother pig represents rape, violence, and sadly human nature. Gilding’s goal when writing about the hunting of the mother pig was to relate this to our world.