The most important symbol of how wild people are by nature is the character Jack. In the end, he uses Sam and Eric, who are the most trusting of the boys, to help him become the leader. He does this by showing how well he can hunt. Because he is good at hunting, he can get the other boys to agree with his ideas about how to stay alive. As the bad guy, he makes people think that any attempts to make them more civilized are bad for their health and survival. Even though it's easy to compare his hostility to primitive, pre-modern societies that attributed natural events to the supernatural, some of which were also very hierarchical, cruel, and violent, it's more likely that Golding was talking about societies like Hitler's Germany or Stalin's Russia. In all of these societies, there were political extremists in charge who used propaganda, people's fear or suffering, or both, to get and stay in power. To stay in power, these leaders can do terrible things to people and justify it by saying it's for the good of society as a whole. Golding thought that everyone, even those who seem good and innocent, had a dark side. When they are talking about the beast, quiet Simon, who probably represents what is good in people, suggests that maybe the beast doesn't exist and is just something they made up. He responds to everyone's fears by saying, "What if there isn't a beast? Maybe it's just us." In this sentence, he also says, unintentionally, that they are the beast. This is how Golding sees the bad side of people. They keep a signal fire going every day because they want adults to help them and get them off the island. In the end, after Piggy is killed, this is no longer an important job for the crew. This shows that they have given up on any natural goodness they may have had and want to stay as they are, separate from the society from which they came.