Read the passage from Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

"You got to be tough now. Make 'em do what you want.”

Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem.

"If I blow the conch and they don’t come back, then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.”

"If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway. I can’t see what they’re doing but I can hear.”

The dispersed figures had come together on the sand and were a dense black mass that revolved. They were chanting something and littluns that had had enough were staggering away, howling. Ralph raised the conch to his lips and then lowered it.

How does this passage use conflict to develop the universal theme of the importance of hope to human happiness?

by showing that Piggy and Ralph sometimes disagree
by showing that the boys have stopped listening to Ralph
by showing that Ralph is worried about blowing on the conch
by showing that Piggy thinks Ralph should be a stronger leader