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  Golding is trying to bring the readers attention to how all of the other boys hair continues to grow, except for Piggy. Piggy from day one has been picked on and a scapegoat cause of his adult look on there situation, and the boys don't want a person looking over there shoulder telling them what to think and do.As each day passes the conch;the object that  gives the right to talk, seems to drift away from Piggy.Also the tribe begins to experience there civilized nature slip away and savage like mentality set in. This is why Golding mentions the boys hair because it is symbolic to there common sense leaving. Except for one; Piggy, his hair continues to stay short because of his adult mindset. All throughout the novel many more symbolic like details will be thrown into the fact that all order and also Piggy will slowly diminished to nothing.