Civilization: The way the children behaved in the later half of the novel was far from civilized. They are easily convinced to go against their past way of life. From the beginning of the novel, the boys have trouble uniting. There are several attempts at trying to run the island in a civilized manner, but it all falls apart very quickly. Humans are tempted quite a lot by their uncivilized nature. Most of us know …
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…The way he thinks is much different from the rest of the children. Ralph, in the later half of the novel is quite fond of Piggy. He seeks advice from Piggy as if he was an advisor. In reality it also works that way. The leaders always have advisors or strategists to obtain guidance from. The leader in most cases is just a figurehead; it's the people behind him that do most of the work.