Q2-Week 4 LOTF Response

[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)

In this passage, they are talking about the beast and whether or not they believe it exists. They argue over the importance of the conch. They discuss the danger of the forest and their knowledge of it. Piggy makes a statement about Mars that is futuristic for their time period and he does not realize that this may take a lot longer than he thinks. He uses this statement to make the people think this could not be possible to back his thoughts of the beast. 

After this statement, Ralph also says something that could very well be a possibility, being afraid of people. By making this statement I think that he fears the breaking of trust in the small community they have established and wishes that there be no fighting. He probably feels that there could be some ighting among themselves which would lead to fear in the community of their own people. This would only lead to the destruction of their small sort of government.