Throughout the book Lord of the Flies, order and chaos are dichotomized constantly. Order is traditionally represented by the huts and the conch, whereas chaos is represented with the hunters’ spears and the jungle. However, upon close examination this though is not supported by these examples but instead is broken down by them. My first example of order in the novel is the conch shell. As soon as the conch makes its grand entrance its …showed first 75 words of 1024 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1024 total…a little cabin screened off from the open space by a few leaves. Order is chaos, and chaos is order. Nothing stands completely for what it is supposed to, because in everything there is a little bit of everything else that it opposes. I leave you with a thought from Fight Club, Tyler Durden says, “Nothing is static, everything is falling apart.” I believe that is what is demonstrated in the book with the dichotomies.