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Hope In Lord Of The Flies
In William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, the fire represents hope, which teaches people to not lose faith. In likely manner, The fire is their only signal if someone see’s them, they’ll get rescued. Recently, they saw a ship, Sam and Eric leave the fire, and Ralph gets angry and says, “‘You said you’d keep the fire going and let it out!’ ‘They might have seen us. We might have gone home,’ This was too bitter for Piggy, who forgot his timidity in the agony of his loss,” (Golding 70). For this reason, when the fire goes Ralph gets upset because this is their only signal. They saw a ship, and Sam and Eric left the fire to go check it out and when the fire goes out, so does their hope for getting off the island goes down. Furthermore, The

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