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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 the voice of reason for all of Ralph's decisions, and day by day the boys mute him out. The tribe has begun to experience there civilized nature slip away and become more and more like savages. The reason why Golding mention the boys hair is because it is symbolic to there common sence leaving, Piggy's 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 on the island is slowly diminishing.



THE REST OF THE ASSIGNMENT (to be done on your own blog)
Pick ONE quote below. Mimic my paragraph above by playing around with the order of S.E.L.E.C.T. to make it flow in a cohesive paragraph. Be sure to look for literary devices AND/OR important language. Also, be sure to include all other elements of S.E.L.E.C.T.

Ralph was annoyed and, for the moment, defeated. He felt himself facing something ungraspable. The eyes that looked so intently at him were without humor (37).

When roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing. He was eager, impatient, beckoning, so that Roger went to him (62).

He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow (64).