Piggy’s glasses represent intellect and the reckless way the boys handle them show how little they value intelligence. From the beginning, intelligence is not valued. Ralph does not respect Piggy nor his intelligence, and the rest of the would rather follow Ralph with his charisma and power and Jack with his aggressive nature. The boys see power and aggression as a way to succeed and ignore how intelligence can improve their society. The boys choose Ralph as their leader because of the power the conch gives him and pay no mind to Piggy, who is going out of his way to be logical and kind.
That’s right- favor Piggy as you always do-”(82). He clearly believes that Ralph has a bias for Piggy, and in a way he does, but only because Piggy isn’t as strong as the other boys. Because of this obvious display of favoritism, to Jack, he becomes a recalcitrant factor of the group quickly attempting to turn his choir group, or his ‘hunters’, and the other boys against Ralph and in companionship Piggy. He, of course, fails to get the ‘biggins’ to publicly betray Ralph and defect to Jack’s more primitive lifestyle. But some of the boys join him in secret and decide that he is the ‘proper’
That quote shows how immature Ralph and the children are when they laugh at Piggy. Another example of the children's innocence is when Jack could not kill the piglet that was trapped in the vines "I was choosing a place. I was just waiting for a moment to decide where to stab him" (Golding). Jack not being able to kill the piglet
Ralph furiously arrives to reclaim Piggy’s specs as he is useless without them, and confront Jack about the stolen fire. These reasons lead the entire confrontation to fights and pure chaos. They fight over the stolen fire and Piggy’s specs. Ralph calls Jack a thief, and Jack loses it, making the first lunge. They stand chest to chest in pure frustration.
When Jack,Roger and their tribe invaded Ralph and Piggy’s camp place Jack ended up taking Piggy’s glasses and even Ralph called Jack a thief “You could have had fire whenever you wanted. But you didn’t. You came sneaking up like a thief and stole Piggy’s glasses!” (254). The point is since Ralph and Piggy had a positive bond and Ralph wanted to get Piggy’s glasses back it shows that he really does care about Piggy and what happens to him and he cares for what was his and what is gone from Piggy since Piggy needs those glasses to see.
All of the boys life have fallen apart, and lives have been taken. The school boys, are not school boys anymore. The schoolboys have lost their innocence on the island. Many lives have been taken, the mama pig, Piggy, Simon, and almost Ralph.
There’s been no violence or fights, but they both have a grudge against each other. Also, they argue basically every day and each argument seems to get worse each time. In chapter 7, on page 118 it says “Now it was Ralph's turn to flush, but he spoke despairingly, out of the new understanding that Piggy had given him. "Why do you hate me?" The boys stirred uneasily, as though something indecent had been said.
Piggy stops Ralph from doing something dumb that he will
At this time they are not going mad and murdering. Similarly, Golding symbolizes Piggy's spectacles as how sane the group is, but they are starting to go insane. Golding portrays the idea of sane being taken back and forth between the boys: " Ralph went to Piggy and took the glasses from him" (72). The children are no longer all at their customary state of mind. They are slowly between each other going crazy.
Piggy befriends Ralph after they crash and Ralph is the first person who Piggy’s ever been friends with so he looks at Ralph as his hero and chief. We see an example of this when Lord of the Flies says, “Then Piggy too, raised his hand grudgingly into the air” (23 Golding). This was when the boys voted for chief and Ralph called Piggy Piggy for the first time, even though Ralph hurt Piggy by calling him that in front of everyone Piggy still keeps his loyalty to Ralph. The actions by Piggy and Nick show how they’re willing to push themselves for
In fact, he went on and told the others about this. When Piggy finally confronted Ralph about this, all that occurred was, “‘Better Piggy than Fatty’ he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership” (25). This conversation proved that Ralph used to be very insensitive, and only bothered to accomplish his own motives, no matter what it took. He was prepared to sacrifice his friendship with one person in order to satisfy another group of people. As additional events occur, Ralph slowly starts to realize how good of a friend Piggy is for him, and how he could not throw away their friendship for cruel people like Jack and Roger.
Piggy, which is represented as the person closest to an adult out of the other kids, not only fend for himself but also decide for himself. Since Piggy doesn’t feel the need to conform he also doesn’t need the offer of the potential safety offered from Jack. When Jack was trying to get the littluns to join his group, in front of piggy and Ralph, “Piggy touched Ralph’s wrist. Come away. There’s going to be trouble.
Ralph and Piggy held onto order, with the death of Piggy “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart and [...] the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (Pg. 202) Chaos and savagery show the true darkness of man’s heart, bringing out the ugliest within us. This is a powerful ending to a meaningful book that wraps multiple themes into one statement. Including darkness of man’s heart and that order is chosen. We weren’t born in tuxedo’s, our appearance show’s how we have chosen to live our lives.
In the story, Piggy said to Ralph, "Come away. There's going to be trouble. And we've had our meat. " If Piggy had not been sophisticated as he was, Jack and Ralph would have gotten into a fight. If anything happens to Ralph there would be no one to protect the powerless ones and Jack would have ruled with his violent ways.
Ralph genuinely cares about the well-being of the kids. Even though Piggy is fat and disregarded by many of the kids Ralph still lets him talk. Jack once again on cares about the meat and proving his superiority. When the beastie first appears in the story there were two different outcomes from the two characters. " He must have had a nightmare.
