In William Goldings novel "Lord of the Flies," the creepers are the vines in the jungles on the island where the boys are stranded. The creepers symbolize various things in the novel, including the choking weeds of the parable in the Christian Bible where the good news fell as seeds on the ground and were strangled by the weeds of sinfulness. The creepers are strong, sinuous, and strangling, like the propensity for naughtiness or even evil within the personalities of the boys. In the same way that the creeping weeds strangle the beauty of the island, the boys initial efforts to be good and to get organized and share jobs nicely are choked by their own apathy, laziness, and selfishness. The creepers represent the ways the boys will become entangled in evil, in the same way the pig is entangled in the forest. The creepers also symbolize snakes on the island because they wind and wrap around objects the way a snake could. Gradually, these creepers become the symbol of evil.