Both Uses of
irrelevant
in
Lord of the Flies
- The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; but the vivid phantoms of his day-dream still interposed between him and Piggy, who in this context was an irrelevance.
p. 16.1irrelevance = something unimportant
- "We've killed a pig." ...
"You let the fire go out."
Jack checked, vaguely irritated by this irrelevance but too happy to let it worry him.
"We can light the fire again. You should have been with us, Ralph. We had a smashing time."p. 69.7 *irrelevance = something that is unimportanteditor's notes: In this use, the author is not saying that it was unimportant that the fire went out. He is saying that Jack thought it was unimportant.
Definition:
not relevant (not related to the subject being considered, or not important enough to want to consider)