Cool Kid Poetic Techniques

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

They went that way, the same way as [Jack] went himself”(Golding 131). This was most of the boys leaving Ralph to join Jack, because he made them think that hunting the pig was the best thing they could do. As if, even then the pig represented fear and Jack was showing them to get rid of it. The pig began to become of more fear when Simon was talking to the pig's head. The conversation can be interpreted in many different ways, it could be Simon is warning himself about the other boys, it could be the pig representing all of Simon's fears by pointing them out, or it could be

Here, Jack talks about how the pigs on the island were able to escape the hunters. I believe that this shows how the pigs are adapting to being hunted and are ready to survive. I feel that the pigs symbolize the commoner in a society; they attempt to avoid those above them and they only try to live their own life. Why the children can't just gather food perplexes me, but this passage still makes it clear that the choir does not take their job very seriously. I would even go as far to say that they care purely for themselves, which would shatter my stereotype of choirboys being perfect children.

This scenes important because the violence went from killing pigs to killing humans who were there friends: ‘“Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Do him in!”The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed.”(152) This chant shows us how violent they were especially since they use to chant “Kill the pig! Cut her throat! Spill his blood!”(69)and now they're killing humans while saying the same phrase. Piggy's death was more traumatizing them simon's: “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist…. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock sea. His head open and stuff came and turned red.Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit like pig’s after it has been killed.”(181) This quote tells us how violate the boys got adding to Golding's theme of humans are naturally

(Goldberg 45). In this situation, it shows how Piggy is being responsible and wanting to get all the important things done. The boys didn't get shelters built and that frustrated Piggy because he wanted the shelters but so they could be safe. By being responsible, Piggy was looking out for everyone. He wasn't being selfish and just looking out for himself.

This indicates the Jack fears killing the pig at first, a fear he overcomes as he sheds civilisation and adopts the way of the savage. He then uses fear of beast to control the boys and creates his own tribe and promises of “having fun” (pg. 150) but later, breaks his promise and mistreats the boys. As he empowered, he got more violent. As a chief, Jack showed off his power to the group by hunting, putting Ralph down, and controls the weak. The hunter’s chants “Kill the pig.

Since Piggy is always made fun of, he wants to be respected by the boys, he is sick of being the one they pick on, when he has done nothing that will make them hate him. “There had grown up tacitly

In the 1980s of Quebec there was many conflicts at the time many which change Quebec to be more independent and others that harm people to simply convey a message about the treatment of Quebecois. Quebec population were too influenced by natonlism to see what was wrong in the situation and how that would impact the world. The government at that time didn’t think about how to achieve their desired goal because they were more focused on the goal itself. Quebec isn’t stable for the province to convert into a province because the economy was pretty low. Quebec is not going to remain peaceful and it is especially present in the 1980s because there was a disagreement on how Quebec will be in the future.

natural desire for power. Several examples about Piggy can be found in the story. At one point,

Piggy stays somewhat static as a good and civilized boy, like some others (e.g. Simon). However, Piggy’s character change involves his entitlement of civility and his specific separation from the rest of the boys. “‘Like kids!’ he said scornfully. ‘Acting like a crowd of kids!’” (38). This quote exhibits Piggy’s nature of judgment over the other boys’ rashness and establishes his entitlement over the other boys early on. This creates a barrier of sorts, as Piggy might not feel tempted to interact the same way because he is “better than that.” Piggy is also directly characterized as the outsider of the group: “There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor” (65). In a sense, Piggy is separated from the overall group of boys by his physical and character traits. Piggy also has this emphasized character trait of being myopic. Once Piggy’s specs are destroyed, not only is Piggy literally blind but symbolically as well. This, in turn, means the group is also blind, as Piggy was the only character that seemed to provide a substantial amount of rational thinking and ideas. This leads to irrational thoughts to flow free, like Jack’s ideology of madness and

The book is filled with dark, gruesome moments. Moments that leave the reader with a destroyed faith in humanity. At surface value this is all true, but after looking deeper into the book many values are present. These value pertain to societal change and conformity. In the book, Piggy is the stereotypical fat boy with the glasses. The book portrays Piggy to be the victim of the society the boys have established on their small island. Despite what he has been through, Piggy makes an effort to contribute to the society the boys have built. The book says, “Piggy was … so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society … that he helped to fetch wood.” (Golding 186). The book also contains values of conformity for the better. The book tells of Jack who became upset with the tribe. He decides that he will break away from the tribe and invites everyone but Ralph to join him. One by one all the boys follow Jack to restart their society; leaving Ralph behind. The boys in the new tribe began to succeed more while Ralph begins to struggle. If Jack did not break away, then that success would have been

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This is like when Simon was killed, Ralph kept blaming everything on him and Piggy, constantly freaking out about how they killed Simon. Piggy was the one to reassure Ralph that everything was going to be all right and that everyone was in a frenzy so it all on Simon. In the book, all of the boys were in the frenzy. ““Kill the beast! Cut his throat!

The need for civilization, innocence and loss of power is shown through the impaled pig's head. In order for the group to survive, animals must be killed in order for the boys to eat. Jack takes on the role of hunter because he enjoys killing living things, as seen when he states, “Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!” (104) Ralph is a more calm person and does not enjoy killing as much as Jack, although he takes a small part in killing the pig. However, in the end, Jack gains all the power because everyone looks up to him as leader because he attempts to hunt the pig throughout the novel and is successful in the end. “We’ll take the meat along the beach.” “Pick up the pig,” Jack said. (150) Meanwhile, Ralph doubts Jack's abilities to kill the pig, and constantly mocks him about being successful. “He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.”(51) Jack proves Ralph wrong and kills the pig. “Jack begins to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."(58) He celebrates

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