Piggy Lord Of The Flies Quote Analysis

Piggy, though not the most memorable in The Lord of the Flies, resonated the most whilst reading this book. Piggy is the stereotypical nerdy kid who seems to be perpetually bullied, even when he is on a deserted island. He has pinkish skin with glasses and asthma with a belly that ate perhaps too much candy from his aunt’s candy shop. While Piggy is almost useless physically, he is very strong mentally, and proves this when he formulates the idea of the conch, but is too weak to blow into it and call everyone. Piggy seems socially awkward, as if he hasn’t spent much times with his fellow peers and rather passed the time with the adults in this life. We see this when Piggy frequently parrots his aunt’s advice such as “My auntie told me not to run… on account of my

Driven by the anger that his glasses were stolen, Piggy became surprisingly confident, which is shown through this quote. Piggy is deeply attached to his glasses and is proud that he has “been wearing specs since [he] was three.” (p. 3) Even though one of the lens is broken, he constantly wipes his glasses because they remind him of his life back home. Now, with his glasses taken by Jack and his tribe, Piggy is practically blind. Because he has been judged and hurt so much for being fat, having asthma and wearing glasses, Piggy feels that Jack can’t do anymore damage. Piggy has finally had enough and wants Jack and everyone else to stop. Being a sensible person, Piggy likes to follow rules, so he expects Jack to give him his glasses back,

His character is related to a great part of the symbolism used by Golding and has a very important role in preventing the descent from civilization to savagery, however, he sadly he witnesses the turnover. Piggy's glasses represent many different ideas. The initial importance of the specs is that they represent the ability to make fire, which they hoped would provide the rescue they needed. Piggy’s glasses also signify Piggy's ability to see literally and figuratively. Without them, he is helpless and blind.  He is unable to serve as well as Ralph's right-hand man and voice of logic. When Piggy is "blinded" it symbolizes the blindness of the Jack's tribe to the evil to which they are succumbing.  Piggy's murder completes the boys’ lost of sight (figuratively speaking) and forces them into total darkness, which leads to the hunting of Ralph.

Ralph being the main character of the book and always trying to find a way to get them off the island is the main good guy, and Piggy can almost be looked at like his sidekick. While Ralph was elected leader in the story he admits, to himself, that Piggy is smarter than him. Whenever Ralph freezes or is at a loss for words Piggy is there to remind him what he needs to say. He is the only person that never betrays Ralph even at the cost of his own life isn’t trying to join Jack’s side. Ralph is the main character and protagonist of the story, but he does have flaws. From the very beginning he never had the leadership skills to get everyone to work hard as a group. It almost seemed that as the story went on he didn’t become a better leader, but a worse one. He would always lose his train of thought while speaking to the group, and couldn’t make them feel safe. They were all afraid of the beast. What makes him the hero of the story, is that he never gives up on being rescued. He also doesn’t become a savage like the other children do. His mind is always on the fact that they need to get off the island, even when the others

     Piggy in the beginning of the book was using his common sense, he was intelligent, he knew what was right from wrong, and he could condone things that made him angry easily. In the beginning of the book, (pg. ) Ralph told everyone his name was Piggy even though Piggy specifically told Ralph that he didn't like to be called that name Piggy later condoned Ralph's action with great ease. Piggy's action's and behavior depended on his glasses. Piggy and his glasses symbolized intelligence, he represents the rational side of civilization. With the glasses it seemed as though Piggy made all the right choices, and he helped Ralph know what needed to be done with the tribe. Without his

Piggy's intellect benefits the group through Ralph because no one wants to listen to Piggy. He cannot be the leader because he does not have leadership skills. No one listens to Piggy's ideas so he can't carry them out. Piggy talks too much and thinks every conflict can be solved by talking about it.

Piggy convinces Ralph to use the conch shell together the others by giving Ralph the undeserved credit of having that idea in the first place. Piggy seems aware that he could never be the true leader of a group, but that maybe he could rule through Ralph in a way.

The savagery of mankind still shows today in all of the nations with the riots, mayhem, and terror groups all around the world. Golding believed that everyone is capable of becoming a Nazi in their own individual way through the savagery of man. He shows this through the symbolism in his book, the Lord of The Flies. Several of the symbols Golding uses were: Ralph, Jack, Piggy, and Roger.

Piggy speaks very worriedly and he never manages to finish his sentences and this makes it sound as if he constantly scared or under a lot of pressure. Jack always says that Piggy is scared (page 58) and that nobody cares what piggy thinks so he is always ignored (page 112). He wears broken glasses and he is ‘fat’ and this stereotypically shows that he doesn’t have that much power and is usually the bully’s victim in most stories. Piggy is not Piggy’s real name. In the beginning of the book Ralph says he wants to make a list and Piggy says as long as they don’t call me what they called me at school (Piggy), but ignoring Piggy’s instructions, Ralph uses ‘Piggy’ and so does everyone else. The name ‘Piggy’ sounds like the person is greedy or fat and these attributes somewhat relate to piggy because he only looks out for himself and he lives of what others have gathered and worked hard for. He doesn’t have to do any of the things that the other characters do. Although the audience may seem annoyed at Piggy, he does a very good job at helping Ralph with decisions and he tries his hardest to keep them all

Unlike Ralph, Piggy is a timid, and quiet young boy who is more of a follower than a leader. Although shy, he shows that he can be helpful and caring to the group, as all of his intentions

Piggy is overweight, wears glasses, and “was the only boy in our school what had asthma,” (Golding 3). He has a slightly different accent from the rest, when he tells Ralph about his asthma Ralph replies with, “Sucks to your ass-mar!” (Golding 8). Piggy is also one of the most logical thinker in the group, “what intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy,“ (Golding 19). From the very beginning he never had respect, he is seen as the ultimate Omega.

In Chapter 1 of the dystopian novel, Ralph and Piggy are the first characters introduced. When the boys are gathered on the island, Piggy and Ralph are the first to meet. By that moment, you instantly assume Ralph is the athletic one and Piggy is not. Piggy is described as the chubby boy who has asthma and wears glasses while Ralph is the fair looking boy. The two boys find out that there is other boys on the island. They gather a meeting and decide to elect a leader. Ralph definitely meets the requirements while Piggy falls behind. Later in the chapter, you learn and find out that Piggy has had a hard time in his childhood. He comes off having a hard time and how he still tries to grasp those emotions. Ralph is shown running throughout the island as Piggy is trying to keep up behind him. He runs on the land, in the lagoon, climbing trees. He has athletic features and it’s noticeable.

Piggy says Simon’s death is “... an accident … and that’s that” and numerous modern scientists agree with that declaration (Golding 157). The novel Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, starts after a plane crash on an island during the next world war. Piggy and Simon are among the schoolboys who attempt survival with no adults. The island is peaceful at first, and the boys build huts and find food to eat, but, as time progresses, matters begin to change. The boys begin to turn savage and become bloodthirsty, consuming the life of Simon as matters become out of hand. When the young boys are celebrating a successful hunt, Simon comes crawling out of the undergrowth. Then, the frightened boys attack, killing the already weak Simon in the process. Due to the fact he did not understand the seriousness of his actions, Piggy is not accountable for his participation in killing Simon.

As mentioned before, Ralph and Jack were the two options for a leader. iFinally, Ralph, the best looking, is chosen as leader and all throughout the story, Piggy is constantly bullied by Jack. But Jack is not the only one that unfairly coins Piggy as only one thing, in fact, everyone does including the leader. At one point, Ralph feels lost and unsure of what to do the control the boys so “once more that evening Ralp had to adjust his values. Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains” (Goulding 78). Mostly every other boy was to afraid to admit that Piggy would make the best leader because they let their assumptions of him, drive their thoughts. Similarly, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie tells the story of her family’s house-boy, Fide, back in Africa. She says “it had not occurred to [her] that anybody in [Fide’s] family could actually make something. All [she] had heard about them was how poor they were, so that it had become impossible for [her] to see them as anything else but poor” (Adichie).  She was constantly reminded by her parents of how poor Fide’s family was and that became her “single story” or in this case, assumption. Although it hadn’t been her fault, she never questioned the family’s ability until she saw it with her own eyes and disproved her assumption. It was not until later

In the beginning, Piggy was the first one Ralph met on the island and they were complete strangers to each other, but overtime they became the best of friends. I feel that the relationship between Ralph and Piggy is very strong compared to the other boys. Ralph seen Piggy as his best friend and he stayed by his side the whole time on the island much like a superhero and his sidekick. He has trust in Piggy and takes consider of his knowledge. For example, Ralph took consider of Piggy's suggestion to use the conch to call all the boys. At the same time, Piggy has always been in agreement with Ralph for most of the decisions he made showing his respect for him.