Golding shows the savagery nature of humans by illustrating the treatment of Piggy through the ignorance and wrongdoing of the other young boys. Piggy is first stereotyped as a person who is fat and lazy based on his physical appearance. This is the first impression that the Narrator wanted us to have of Piggy is how he is fat. He gives us a description in this quote that gives us a glimpse into the future of how Piggy fatness will be brought to life by the evilness of the other boys. “The naked crooks of his knees were plump, caught and scratched by thorns. He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat”(Golding 6). He is described as plump; this isn’t a good description as it …show more content…
He also gets described as very fat instead of fat. This is majorly important because being called fat means that you're overweight and you look physically unhealthy. However Piggy is described as Very fat. This is important because it shows that he isn’t even good enough to get called fat like a normal human. He gets portrayed as much worse than that, showing how the characters will treat him because he is very fat and dehumanizes him. In addition, Piggy was not just dehumanized for getting called very fat, he was also dehumanized by getting Physically abused. It was easier for the boys to abuse someone and use him as a punching bag physically when he wasn’t even thought of as a human.. When Piggy said something that Jack didn’t agree with he got smacked. “Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks Piggy cried out in terror” (Golding 71). Ralph in the previous quote was just dehumanized for his physical appearance. However now he is getting physically dehumanized by getting physically touched. His glasses which represented his Physical appearance flew