Read the passages from Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
Passage 1

Indignation took away Ralph’s control.
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"I was talking about smoke! Don’t you want to be rescued? All you can talk about is pig, pig, pig!”
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"But we want meat!”
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"And I work all day with nothing but Simon and you come back and don’t even notice the huts!”
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"I was working too—”
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"But you like it!” shouted Ralph. "You want to hunt! While I—”
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They faced each other on the bright beach, astonished at the rub of feeling. Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand. From beyond the platform came the shouting of the hunters in the swimming pool. On the end of the platform, Piggy was lying flat,
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looking down into the brilliant water.
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"People don’t help much.”
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He wanted to explain how people were never quite what you thought they were.
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Passage 2
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"You got to be tough now. Make 'em do what you want.”
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Ralph answered in the cautious voice of one who rehearses a theorem.
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"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.”
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"If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway. I can’t see what they’re doing but I can hear.”
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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.
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The universal theme of Passage 1 is the conflict between an individual’s desires and the community’s needs, and the universal theme of Passage 2 is the importance of hope to human happiness. How do these universal themes relate to each other?
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A. They both demonstrate that people can rarely trust each other.
B. They both warn about the dangers of having a negative perspective.
C. They both show that people act in a way that benefits themselves.
D. They both emphasize the difficulty of conflicting goals between individuals.