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Piggy's Death In Lord Of The Flies

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Any traces of normal civilization remaining on the island disappeared in the last few chapters of Golding’s novel because of their actions. After witnessing the death of Simon, Ralph and Piggy struggle to understand what happened. Ralph sees Simon’s death as murder and feels partly responsible for his death. Piggy on the other hand, tries to avoid Simon’s death because he is afraid to accept what happened and tries to blame Simon himself. On the other side of the island at Jack’s Castle Rock, Jack explained to the children that the beast looked like Simon and is not really dead. Then, while Ralph and the others were sleeping, Jack and a few of his hunters attacked Ralph’s people and stole Piggy’s glasses and extinguished their fire. Piggy,
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