Piggy Character Analysis

A character in a novel can represent a larger idea in society. In William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, each character is illustrated to represent a larger idea in society. Ralph represents democracy, Jack represents savagery, and Piggy represents a scientific approach.

To start out, Ralph meets a boy nicknamed Piggy, Piggy is an intelligent boy, you could almost say he is the brains of the operation. But anyway, Piggy explicitly states that he does not wish to be called "Piggy", because the bullies always called

     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

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

Initially, Piggy is introduced as a loyal, not fully educated and non-physically active follower, through indirect characterisation of his constant companionship with Ralph, his poor grammar in his dialogue, and direct and indirect characterisation over his action of restoring breath, respectively. He later develops into a mature and sensible guardian over indirect characterisation of his thoughts that the children are senseless and his martyred expression and his recognition of the priorities of survival and eventual escape, who becomes irritated with the lack of respect for him using a harsh

Moliere’s saying, “A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemingly behavior is patience and moderation.”, accurately represents Piggy’s situation from Lord of the Flies. Throughout the story, Piggy, though disparaged, still stays strong and keeps contributing his thoughts and ideas to the society until his death. With Piggy’s death, the intelligence of the tribe on the island comes to an end as well. When his intelligence disappears, so does the remains of their civilization. The loss of intellect in a society results in the society’s downfall. Golding tries to recreate this idea through Piggy’s character and the situations that he is made to endure.

No one listens to Piggy’s ideas from the beginning of the book right to the end. He was the only one with some sense of forethought about the consequences of their actions. He always offers shrewd ideas to Ralph with the hope that he will follow them. One example would be when he thought of blowing on a conch to find the other survivors. “We can use this to call the other. Have a meeting, They’ll

In the book ¨Lord of the Flies¨ by William Golding, the character Piggy was very weak and unhelpful. Piggy had no say in anything and when he tried to talk everyone ignored him or was rude towards him. He did not stand up for himself much but when he did, still nobody respected him like they did Ralph or Jack. Piggy is weak, unhelpful, but is symbolized as power for Ralph because without him, he has nobody and is powerless. Piggy was just there for his specs to be used to make fires to cook meat and make a signal to possibly be rescued. He was not that necessary to the novel seeing how he was a weak character.

There was no doubt that Piggy was logical. Starting with showing Ralph how to use a conch to bring everyone together, to being the only one to even think of taking roll of everyone’s name. He

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,

The boys treat Piggy as an outsider because he promotes civility and acting logically insulting the boys' thoughts and actions. When the boys are meeting at an assembly discussing plans for the island, Piggy describes the boys as acting “Like a pack of kids!” (45). Piggy is using “Like a pack of kids” in a derogatory way. He is saying that it is bad to act like kids, even though they are children, and they should act like formal adults. He goes on to say that in order to be rescued, they must “put first things first and act proper” (45). Piggy is saying that in order to accomplish their goal of being rescued, they must act properly and do tasks in a logical order. In this case, they should have initially built shelters. This illustrates that

Into the Wild (1996), a novel by Jon Krakauer, explores the life of Christopher McCandless and the events leading up to his death. In an effort to prove his independence, Chris makes a tragic journey to Alaska that killed him at 24 years old. Along the way, he encounters many people who have been impacted by his mature, unique personality. Wayne Westerberg, Jan Burress, and Ronald Franz are a few people who were affected by his wise character.

Despite being frequently made fun of, Piggy always seems to like the attention, even if it is negative attention. When Ralph finds out that the heavy boy stuck on the island with him is called ‘Piggy,’ he is extremely amused. Although this was a rude and unkind nickname, “Piggy grinned reluctantly, pleased despite himself even at this much recognition”. In my opinion, Piggy appreciates any attention that he receives because he may have not been noticed at school. This may be why Piggy feels a sense of pride when he is noticed, even if it is in a negative or rude way. Piggy also allows himself to be controlled and pushed around by the other boys. I wonder why he allows this to happen. Does Piggy just want to be more liked by

Certainly, with his asthma and extra weight, he cannot compete against the more athletic boys such as Ralph and Jack. For, example, when the boys make a rescue fire, Piggy arrives too late to assist with this work. And, while he is more rational than the others, he is unable to put into action some of his more reasonable ideas because Jack heckles him, telling him such things as that the conch has no significance on the mountain, thus undermining Piggy's authority to speak. Later, he berates Piggy when he criticizes both him and Ralph in Chapter

The fat boy seems to be uncomfortable with his nickname and is afraid that Ralph would call him “Piggy” as they come back home. Before Piggy introduces his name[comma] he is identified by his appearance, just like Ralph the “fair boy” and Piggy the “fat” one. As we may know that the name “Piggy” itself refers to his weight, not his personality. Piggy might feel better if Ralph knows his real name and stops laughing at his nickname[comma] which people usually call him in school.