Intelligence is a sign of what you know and also how you present yourself. In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the character Piggy is the intellectual in this story who uses his mind to benefit himself and the group. This is seen when Piggy states on page 9 “‘That’s right. Can’t catch my breath, he said. I was the only boy in our school who had asthma’”. This quote shows how Piggy believes that stating his flaws to those around him will help them get a better sense of who he is and what he can and can’t do. This describes his intelligent thinking and how he uses his mind to present himself to the world through the use of his abilities and disabilities to make his uses foreseeable to everyone. He also uses his intelligent mind