Piggy's Meetings

Overtime, while stranded on an island the children from the book, Lord of the Flies at first are scared about not getting saved. After a while, on the island, the kids realize that they may not be getting saved and they start to go wild and don’t care about life anymore. To try and keep the kids in order Ralph calls meetings to get everyone together and talk about what needs to be done. From the beginning of the book to the end everyone and everything has changed dramatically. Throughout the book there are multiple meetings, each changing every time, but also having similarities to them.
Ralph calls the meetings by using a conch shell found by Piggy. To call the meetings by using the conch shell was Piggy’s idea “ We can use this to call the

Ralph calls the meeting just to see if anyone can hear the conch and so they can “decide on what to do” (Golding 21). In this first meeting Jack appears to be very rude to Piggy and starts calling him names while Ralph is trying to get everyone’s name down. In the last meeting the children now are less terrified and more careless about what happens. This meeting is somewhat the same as the first one. At the beginning there is a tiny fight between Jack and Ralph, while in the first meeting there was a fight between Jack, Piggy and Ralph. Also there is a complete change in the mood of the meeting and what the meeting was called for. In the last meeting Jack calls for the meeting to happen. In astonishment, Ralph jumps to his feet and runs to where the meetings are held, at the platform. When Ralph is saying that he should’ve called the meeting it gets Jack’s attention. Jack called the meeting to tell his hunters that Ralph thinks they are no good and that they are cowards, which Ralph didn’t say about them “And the next is that Ralph said my hunters are no good” (Golding 126). Jack and Ralph go back and forth about what Jack said and at the end of it Jack thinks that Ralph should’ve never got elected as chief. The other children think he deserved to be chief. This statement turned Jack red. Everyone has their certain role or task they should be part of or doing throughout the whole