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The tropical island, with its bountiful food and untouched beauty, symbolizes paradise. It is like a Garden of Eden in which the boys can try to create the perfect society from scratch.
The Island Quotes in Lord of the Flies
The Lord of the Flies quotes below all refer to the symbol of The Island. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 12
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His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
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The Island Symbol Timeline in Lord of the Flies
The timeline below shows where the symbol The Island appears in Lord of the Flies. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 1
...fairly sure the plane they were in was shot down and crash landed on an island, and that all the adults on the plane were killed. They wonder if any of...
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The boys climb to the highest peak on the island, which they call the mountain, from where they can see that they're on an uninhabited...
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Chapter 2
...Ralph blows the conch to call another meeting. Ralph announces that they're on an uninhabited island. Jack interrupts to say that they still need an army in order to hunt pigs.
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Piggy takes the conch and says no one knows they're on the island. Ralph agrees, but describes the island as a good place where they'll have fun even...
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Chapter 4
The boys adjust to life on the island. The younger boys are now called 'littleuns." The older boys are "biguns." The littleuns generally...
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Chapter 5
...the signal fire going. He says the fire is the most important thing on the island.
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Chapter 6
Ralph and the biguns agree to search the island. Piggy stays behind to look after the littleuns. At the far tip of the island,...
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