Throughout the book we've seen the beasts to be the boys, and we said the pig's head represented the beast in the conversation with Simon. As i keep reading, I keep thinking about that head, and I believe there is another meaning to it. We always talk about the clothing or glasses as sybols of civilization. As we see them less, there isn't as much order and more savagery. The pigs head is also another sybol of this. The head decayes more and more as the days go on the same way civilization is decaying within the boys. Also, to tie this in with our beast conversation, the beast becomes more and more of a fear within the boys day by day. This feels like to me when the head says "I'll be down there"to Simon, the more it decayes the more he is with the boys causeing fear and chaos. This is something i'd like people to think about and possibly talk about in class.
-Austin Reichert
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