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<br>The beginning of the book identifies the characters in their respective roles. Piggy, who finds little good with the conduct of the boys, is the superego or "the internalization of standards of morality and propriety" (Abrams 249-250). He helps to establish order by introducing the conch; he also scorns the boys for "acting like a crowd of kids" (Golding 42). Piggy's nemesis comes in Jack, the large, rude leader of the choir. Jack is the id of the boys, incorporating "libidinal and other primal desires" (Abrams 249). He volunteers himself and his choir mates as huntersa decidedly primal job. The balance of the two boys is Ralph, who both laughs "delightedly" (Golding 11) at the prospects of the wild island, and thinks quickly to establish a signal fire. Ralph is the ego, which "tries as best it can to negotiate the conflicts between the insatiable demands of the id [and] the impossibly stringent requirements of the superego" (Abrams 250). He is well suited to the job, as he is chief: this allows him to both control and listen to the wills of the id and superego. All goes well with the tribe of boystheir "psyche" of Ralph, Piggy and Jack is reasonably balanceduntil Jack makes a fateful decision: he lets the fire go out when he abandons it to hunt; a ship passes by the island but, without a signal fire to alert it, does not rescue them. As the id, he has made a key