How Is Piggy Intelligent

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In the novel Lord Of The Flies, by WIlliam Golding, Piggy is characterized as intelligent. For example Piggy is shown as intelligent in LOTF such as in chapter 1 when Piggy told Ralph who had the conch that, “ ‘ We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us ‘ “ (Golding 16). This is an excellent way of showing that Piggy is intelligent as he thought of something Ralph didn’t, which is a large foreshadow of what is to come. Piggy throughout the rest of the book, such as when he says “ ‘That’s what I said! I said about our meeting and things and then you said shut up-’ “ (Golding 43). This also is an extraordinary example because of the sheer fact of he’s pointing out things he said earlier and the others,