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**1. How was Piggy's death foreshadowed? Identify at least two ways. **


 *  One way that I believe that is passing was foreshadowed is that the fact that the boys were going to be rescued without him because he was gone. Another way that his death was foreshadowed in a way was that no one but Ralph seemed to care that he was actually gone. **


 * 2. Why do you think the author chose to have Roger kill Piggy and not Jack? **


 *  I think the author decided to do this ultimately because of how Jack is such a major character and maybe wanted to utilize his presence in the mere future. He probably did this also because of the fact that it was obvious that Roger didn’t like Piggy in a comparison to Jack and the fact that Roger is part of the hunters commanded by Jack. **


 * 3. When Samneric are forcefully captured they "protest out of the heart of civilization". Explain what you think that means. **


 * What I think it means is that they were fighting for their right to be aside Ralph and Piggy who happened to be the more civilized people between the two groups. I also think that it means that they were trying to convince them that what they were doing was extremely savage and uncivilized. **


 * 4. What is symbolic in Ralph blowing the conch one last time in front of Jack and the others. Do you believe that Ralph thought he could get Jack to comply to his wishes for the return of Piggy's specs and enough people to keep the fire going? Why? **


 * To me the blowing of the conch is symbolic of an attempt to make peace, or a treaty. I think that because of how it might make Jack change his mind and they could unite, but it obviously didn’t work. I think that Ralph probably thought that because he might have believed that they would put survival as their first priority and starting a fire would help them increase their chance of surviving or even getting rescued. **


 * 5. Why do you think Jack decided not to challenge Ralph at the end of the book when the officer asks them who was in charge? **


 * Because if Jack went and did that, there would probably a lot of arguing and possibly violence between the two which would cause the officer to have to separate them. Jack could have held back because of how the naval officer would have thought that it could have been his fault that things were this way on the island. **


 * 6. What is ironic about how Ralph was saved? Think fire and smoke. **
 * To me, I believe that it is ironic that Ralph was saved because of how the situation he was in was extremely dire because of how he was about to be murdered by Jack’s group of hunters. It is also ironic because of how Ralph originated the idea of using smoke as a signal to attract a rescue and he was saved by that. My final reason to how that was ironic is because of how the hunters were supposed to keep the fire going a few chapters ago and a ship came by when the fire was not being tended. It goes to show that fire and smoke could really be helpful to save your life. **


 * 7. Why do you think the author chose to have the characters be all boys? How might it have been different if the characters had been all girls? I think the reason chose boys is that girls would probably be more friendlier and less primitive in their nature. Also they would work together in a more cohesive and maybe try to solve their problems with working to solve them instead of violence. In comparison, the boys are obviously distant from similarities as the boys in this situation were portrayed. **


 * 8. Compare the boys fears from the start of the book to the end? In what ways did they change? What is the author trying to say about fear/terror/horror? **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When the book began, the boys started to become afraid of things like beasts and other things such as nightmares. As the book progressed and took the course it did, it became obvious that the boys started to become more fearful of the beast, but somewhat afraid of themselves and other people in the gorup. I think what the author was trying to say about fear/terror/horror is that maybe the only thing that they fear is themselves and the “beast” that they’re becoming. **