The Lord Of The Flies Critical Lens Essay

Four Eyes “This is an island. At least I think it’s an island. That’s a reef out in the sea. Perhaps there are not any grownups anywhere” (Golding 2). In the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, he demonstrates to us that things are not always what they turn out to be like. In the novel, young boys get stuck on an island and they had to learn how to fend for themselves. The boys had to create a society within the island to learn how to survive. They learned how to kill, create shelter, and have fun. Along the way came many hardships they had to conquer, like death. Many boys on the island do not like, Piggy, or care for him, and all he wants is to help the boys and to be apart of the society that boys created. Piggy is overweight and wears glasses, the boys make fun of him for it, Piggy has to learn how to accept and deal with his weight and that people don’t like him a lot. Piggy in the novel, Lord of the Flies, is not well liked by many of the guys on the island. Many of them make fun of him and treat him like a toy that they can push around whenever they want. Jack has shows and

Piggy lived with aunt before he got sent to the island. Piggy is also very smart but no one believes that he is so he puts himself down for it. Piggy tells the boys how to cook fruit, create a fire, roast pork, and also to move the fire. “Only Piggy would have the intellectual darling to suggest moving the fire from the mountain” (Golding 115). Piggy’s intelligence and that he is smarter than all the rest of the boys on the island, but they always have turned him down whenever he has something to say because they do not think he is intelligent. During the book Piggy helped make a fire with his broken sunglasses, that Jack broken because he does not like him, so he had to adjust to the fact that he only had one glasses lens so he could only see with one