Все всегда оказываются не такими, как от них ждешь. - William Golding

He knelt among the shadows and felt his isolation bitterly. They were savages it was true; but they were human.

Нам нужны правила, и мы должны им подчиняться. Мы не дикари какие-нибудь. Мы англичане. А англичане всегда и везде лучше всех. Значит, надо вести себя как следует.

This toy of voting was almost as pleasing as the conch. Jack started to protest but the clamor changed from the general wish for a chief to an election by acclaim of Ralph himself. None of the boys could have found good reason for this; what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy while the most obvious leader was Jack. But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch. The being that had blown that, had sat waiting for them on the platform with the delicate thing balanced on his knees, was set apart.