LOTF Response 11/7

[Piggy:] "I don't agree with all Jack said, but with some.  'Course there isn't a beast in the forest.  How could there be?  What would a beast eat?"
"Pig."
"We eat pig."
"Piggy!"
"I got the conch!" said Piggy indignantly.  "Ralph--they ought to shut up, oughtn't they?  You shut up, you littluns!  What I mean is that I don't agree about this here fear.  Of course there isn't nothing to be afraid of in the forest.  Why--I been there myself!  You'll be talking about ghosts and such things next.  We know what goes on and if there's something wrong, there's someone to put it right."
He took off his glasses and blinked at them.  The sun had gone as if the light had been turned off. [...]
"Life," said Piggy expansively, "is scientific, that's what it is.  In a year or two when the war's over they'll be traveling to Mars and back.  I know there isn't no beast--not with claws and all that, I mean--but I know there isn't no fear either."
Piggy paused.
"Unless--"
Ralph moved restlessly.
"Unless what?"
"Unless we get frightened of people." (83-84)

This sections shows that the beast is actually the boys themselves. "Unless we get frightened of people." is saying that Ralph and Piggy are scared of Jack. Jack is turning into a savage and is loosing his humanity which means he is the one that they are afraid of. We also get as readers, what is going on in the outside world and how the war will over soon and they will be back home. The fear they are feeling is their imagination.

"We eat pig." is foreshadowing that either Piggy might die or will be hurt soon. Piggy says that there isn't anything to be afraid of in the forest which is a lie because he is just trying to comfort himself. Jack's tribe hunts in the forest, the fire happened in the forest, and the "beast" has been in the forest, these are just some examples of why the boys are actually afraid of the forest. Piggy also says that he has the conch which mean there is still some order before everything goes wrong in chapter 8 and onward. The weather changes and sun goes down which indicates a change mood giving us a creepy setting.