Who Is Piggy In Lord Of The Flies

Lord of The Flies The book Lord of The Flies by William Golding is about a group of British schoolboys who landed on a deserted island without any adult; after their plane crash, they will need to survive on their own until someone comes to save from the island. In Lord of the Flies, Piggy, one of the schoolboys on the island, wants order and peace with everyone. Piggy is considerate/ helpful to other, faithful to all rules/ laws, but inactive in activities.
Piggy is considerate to others and helpful in the story by helping others in need. He shows this when one little boy asks for the conch and the people just laugh at the little boy but Piggy help by saying, “‘Let him have the conch!’ shouted Piggy ‘Let him have it!’”(35). Piggy has also helped the little boy by telling them about the beasties the little boy saw. In the story, he has also said “... The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night…”(45). This shows

This sentence tells about him not wanting to do anything extreme but still wanting to be active because of his health. He also shows this when he said “I can’t swim. I wasn’t allowed. My asthma-”. (13). Through these examples, we see that he want to be helpful to the others in a way, but don't want to be active and do anything that requires endurance.
Piggy is helpful and useless in certain ways, but he is still important to the survival of the boys. He is useful for his helpfulness by being someone that take care of and look after the little ones. He is considered useless because he can't run for a long time and is blind without his glasses; this makes him unable to do endurance tasks because of his health. In these examples, we can tell that he is helpful in a group or society but useless when it is personal or against another