First Blog Writing Assignment

   In key passage 6 Ralph biting his fingernails symbolizes the boys becoming savages. “They were bitten down to the quick though he could not remember when he had restarted this habit nor any time that he had indulged in it.” The boys didn’t see what they were doing when they killed Simon and Piggy, they didn’t understand the gravity of it.
   At the end of the novel when the officer comes, introducing a new point of view, all the boys all begin to cry. As if they are just realizing that they’ve been biting their nails the whole time.
   This symbol connects to the book’s theme of ‘evil not seeing evil’. When you are the bad guy in a situation you don’t consciously make decisions thinking that they are wrong, but when you look back on the situation, you can see the evil that you’ve done.