The Scene- Lord of the Flies

Again, as with the last blog, I offer you a choice:
Disregard the small scribblings of a journal about Lord of the Flies and play with the penguins at right by waving your mouse above them or maybe enjoy a poem below...
Or you could zoom in and read this arrangement of words regarding the most important scene in Lord of the Flies.

Numerous scenes can be argued as the most important in this novel, Lord of the Flies, but none had quite the impact (besides the climax) that this one had. The scene I am refering to, of course, is the scene I will call "The Broken Specs" Scene.
In "The Broken Specs" scene the boys are on the island and the "biguns" are scattered. Jack took the hunters off on in thirst for meat while Ralph and the others stayed and played in a bathing pool. While searching the horizon, Ralph spotted a stream of smoke on the horizon. With excitement and they focused on the smoke. When sure of sight, they turned towards their beacon. Ralph was shocked and horrified when the spot where their smoke should billow from was dormant, the chief was furious. His emotion was met with opposing excitement when Jack and the hunters returned with their kill. The hunters danced and sang, unaware of Ralph fuming. Not until it was revealed what they had missed did the hunters realize the error in their ways. All dancing and story-telling and excitement ceased when Jack and the others realized that becuase they had left the fire, potential rescuers had floated right past. Piggy stood to repeat their offense and was met with an angry crack in the head by Jack, sending Piggy's specs flying and shattering one lens. It was at this point that "not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped"(73).
At this scene, something definately snaps and this can be argued as the point in the novel where problems begin to run downhill. The lit fire represented their hopes of survival, and up to this point they had kept it lit until the precise moment when it was needed. Jack and the hunters refused to acknowledge their fault, becuase their minds had long since drifted away from rescue and instead moved to survival. The hunters turned into savages without the presence of adults, a common theme throughout the novel. The savages were so caught up in their thirst for blood that they no longer thought as a human would and focus on getting off the island. The hunters had been long on the turning point of going from human to savage, but their first success in the hunt tipped the balances and they were suddenly swept up by primal instinct.
There was one symbol in this scene that stands out above all else,  Piggy's specs. The specs were the boys' firestarter, and the fire represented escape. When Jack attacked Piggy, he shattered one of the lenses. One shattered lens represented the beginnings of the boys dividing. The broken specs would answer the quote above; it is at this point that Jack and Ralph would be seperated, snapped like a broken pair of glasses. Only having one lens leaves Piggy partially blind and helpless, a burden to be placed upon Ralph more and more as the novel goes on. But this blindness is not limited to Piggy. There were two lenses before they snapping, and each represents a leader, Jack and Ralph. Ralph was focused on fire, which is why his lens did not snap when the specs flew. Jack, on the otherhand, was so overcome by savage instincts. This is represented by the lack of lens. The specs were necessary for fire and when Jack chose hunting over rescue his lens for fire broke. He and the other hunters are now forced to travel the forest blindly, without the lens of fire and the human thought that Ralph possesses. The damaged specs represents so much more than just a broken piece of glass, it shows the beginnings of a schism within the boys and one groups turn towards savagery: the turning point in the novel.