The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away. Once there was this and that; and now--and the ship had gone. [... Jack refusing to give Piggy the floor when he has the conch...]
"The rules!" shouted Ralph. "You're breaking the rules!"
"Who cares?"
Ralph summoned his wits.
"Because the rules are the only thing we've got!"
But Jack was shouting against him.
"Bollocks to the rules! We're strong--we hunt! If there's a beast, we'll hunt it down! We'll close in and beat and beat and beat--!" (91)
In this excerpt from " The Lord of The Flies," things are starting to fall apart in the small civilization that was created under Ralphs rule. Ralph realizes that things are not going to work out the way that he planned and that some people were going to make getting rescued more difficult, such as Jack. Jack shows us in this part of the book that he doesn't care much for order and rules. Jack is violent and really his main priority is to kill.
Both of these contrasting points of views add a big person vs. person conflict and add much more depth to the book. This small portion of the book gives us foreshadowing as to what chaos Jack might create in the future of the book, and we understand that Ralph is very frustrated and does not have much of an idea of what to do. This idea leads on later in the book and leads to a few major situations.
I agree. Everything is turning into chaos. They need to maintain organization.
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