After the murder of Simon, Ralph’s innocence continues to deteriorate when he watches his friend’s death. Piggy is the first boy Ralph encounters after they crash on the island and the one who decides to stay with him after Jack leaves the group. One night Jack steals Piggy’s glasses to provide his tribe with fire, so Ralph and Piggy decide to get them back. This encounter leads to a fight between Ralph and Jack where, in the chaos, “Ralph [hears] the great rock before he [sees] it...The rock [strikes] Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch [explodes] into a thousand white fragments and [ceases] to exist” (180-181). When Piggy tries to interfere and talk reason with the savages amidst Ralph and Jack’s fight, one of the boys pushes a boulder off the cliff, which kills Piggy. …show more content…
At this point, Ralph has seen two of his friends die; both of which had only pure intentions, but were brutally killed by the savages. Realizing this point as well as the fact that he is now alone with no one to speak to about Piggy’s death, makes Ralph even more susceptible to experience the same feelings he had after Simon’s demise, which ultimately leads to the decay of his innocence. Moreover, after Piggy dies, Ralph is hunted by the savages, so he hides in a thicket for the night where he thinks about what happened to Piggy. Ralph thinks to himself, “Piggy [is] everywhere, [is] on his neck, [is] become terrible in darkness and death. If Piggy were to come back out of the water, with his empty head--” (190). As Ralph thinks about what happened to Piggy, he becomes haunted by Piggy’s