What does Ralph do for Jack to maintain peace? Ralph allows him to lead the choir. What excuse does Jack give for not killing the pig? That he was trying to find a proper place to stab the pig.

In Lord of the Flies, Ralph is closely linked to the conch throughout the novel. Both the boy and the shell come to represent law and order. Later, Ralph uses the conch to establish order in the meeting. He holds it up and dictates that the boys will use it like “hands-up” at school to take turns when speaking.

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What is Ralph realizing is necessary in order to be a leader? That he needs to be strict and firm in what he says. He also needs to be able to think quickly.

The little boy with the birthmark goes missing after running away with the other children. He never reappears and is assumed to have died in the fire. He was down there–” A tree exploded in the fire like a bomb.

Unfortunately, the boy with the birthmark is the first one to succumb to the unchecked human nature that is the real beast, for he dies shortly after this in the raging fire that the boys let get out of control that destroys one side of the mountain. He asks what the older boys are going to do about the beastie.

Unfortunately, the littlun with the mulberry-colored birthmark becomes the first casualty on the island as he dies in the uncontrolled forest fire created by the boys.

His birthmark is on his face and said to be “mulberry-coloured”. He is the first boy to die, as he is killed in a fire.

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Mulberry Birthmark Boy: A littlun, he is the first to invoke the name of the “beast” and spread fear among the boys. After the first signal fire on the mountain is not contained and burns wildly across the island, he is not seen again. Though it is never actually stated, it is assumed that he has died in the fire.

The boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark on his face might have been the first to die, but he is not the last. The deaths of Simon and Piggy can be more directly attributed to the descent into savagery of the tribe. The littleun’s death was an accident.

Ralph and jack are friends at the start of the story. They are both the oldest boys on the island and they both have a high level of admiration from the boys at the beginning. Ralph got all the boys together when he had established the conch, which straightaway got him the boys respect.

As the boy with the birthmark is the first in the group also to mention the “beasties” on the island, he can be seen in relation to the beast that resides within the boys themselves, which Simon references later. He stands as a sign of the weakest elements of the boys’ spirit, open to fear; ready to ignore real danger.

Shouting that he is the beast, the boys descend upon Simon and start to tear him apart with their bare hands and teeth. Simon tries desperately to explain what has happened and to remind them of who he is, but he trips and plunges over the rocks onto the beach. The boys fall on him violently and kill him.

The boys begin to accompany the game with a sinister chant “Kill the pig” and turn the whole thing into a wild and savage dance. They eventually get so carried away with all this, that Simon is brutally killed. Therefore the game foreshadows Simon’s death.

Piggy’s Death The death is foreshadowed in the early pages, when Piggy tells Ralph he has asthma, can’t swim, needs his glasses to see, and is sick from the fruit. That his death comes through an act of violence, instead of his own physical condition, defies the expectations set up by all the previous foreshadowing.

His death is foreshadowed in the intense scene in which Jack and the others in his tribe violently kill the sow.

The death of Piggy not only symbolizes the complete destruction of civility and rationality on the island, but means Ralph is on his own to contend with Jack and his barbaric tribe. Piggy was Ralph’s biggest supporter throughout the novel because he shared Ralph’s passion for a structured civil society.