In the novel 'Lord of the Flies' by William Golding, one of the ways in which the author shows us that time is passing is by marking it with meetings - just like we do in the real 'civilized' world. The trouble is that the boys no longer have a schedule that is required by convention, social rules or routine. In their new world, time is marked more by hunger, thirst, dawn, dusk, light and dark. Ralph tries to impose some sort of order that he is used to in order to 'civilize' their surroundings to some degree at least. The 'meetings' idea soon gets dishevelled (like their hair which also shows time passing by its growth) because they have no need of clocks and none of them have any other time commitments or diaries and can spend time as they please. Ralph cries out
'Meetings. Don't we all love meetings! Every day,twice a week,we talk.' (The word 'week' is a measurement of time.)
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