LOFT Critical Scene

  A critical scene in Lord of the Flies that I think that matters to the novel in a critical way is Piggy's death and the conch breaking on page 181. I think this is such a critical scene because this was such a dramatic scene in the book, a death of a main character, and the end of a symbolic item. What I think we need to understand from this scene is that this scene is very important and places a role for the rest of the book. 

  What I think readers need to notice from this scene is that Jack has became a complete savage with putting a defensive system with boulders and trying to kill Ralph. What I think readers need to ask questions about on this scene is why Jack has become so obsessed with killing. I think this scene is important as a whole to the novel is that this scene is has so much drama in it because Piggy as been in the novel since Chapter 1 and the conch became the symbolic object that united all the boys in the first place and both Piggy and the conch are now dead now. This is why I think this scene is critical to the novel