Death In Lord Of Flies Piggy's Death

Analysis of Piggy’s Death

As a character appeared almost earliest in the book, is he considered to be bead? Indeed, the author William Golding really did that in his book-Lord of Flies. After readers finished the book, most of them probably think about that how did Piggy avoid being dead? Actually, Piggy’s death is inevitable, because of Piggy’s weakness in physical condition, Piggy’s depressive mentality and other children’s’ savage behavior.

First of all, a notable and fatal disadvantage, or defect, for Piggy is his poor health status. In a condition like a desert island, good physical condition plays a pivotal rule in protecting oneself and raising possibility to be alive, and vice versa. Based on the description on the book, Piggy’s poor physical condition is really a factor which caused his death. The author William Golding showed Piggy’s background by a piece of conversation between Piggy and

To be frank, this group of people killed Piggy. The author depicted Piggy’s death like this: The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist…The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest. Piggy fell forty feet and landed on his back across the square red rock in the sea. His head opened and stuff came out and turned red. Piggy’s arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig’s after it has been killed (William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 244-245). The author used direct depiction to express the insane behavior of so-called “Savages”, which is a group of people led by Jack. Savage used rock to killed Piggy, and from the previous description, whoever littluns and two leaders (Jack and Ralph) all disparaged, sneered, even reproached Piggy. Those depiction can be considered as a foreshadowing, to implied that Piggy many have a different resolution in the end of the