Jack, And Piggy In Lord Of The Flies By William Golding

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Lord of the Flies by William Golding is a book about a group of boys that get stranded on an island after World War II in 1954. Some of the main characters/boys on the island are Ralph, Jack, and Piggy. Piggy is a smart fat boy with wide spectacles and has asthma. Ralph is the leader of the boys when they first get on the island. Ralph would sometimes be mean to Piggy and also be really bossy. Jack is rude, mean, and a savage. Jack killed two of the boys in Ralph's group while they were on Jack’s side of the island. Ralph did not like jack in the first place because he would always try to steal the conch from Piggy or any one else. Ralph and Piggy had a pretty good relationship together. Jack on the other hand never had a good relationship with Ralph or Piggy. That's one of the reasons why he split up from the group and made his own group. The boys can be a symbol of the world because they show that if you work together with friends,family or anyone around you, …show more content…

A little while after they landed Piggy said that he did not want them to call him piggy but ralph said if not piggy they would just start calling him fatty. Piggy didn't like that either so he just dealt with it. Piggy could also at some points be very annoying. At the beginning, when they got on the island, they had a meeting to try and figure things out. During these meetings all the boys wanted to share their idea so their voices just became loud messes of sound. Ralph then invented the conch which was a shell that would show a sign of leadership and it allows you to speak. The conch is were a boy sits it in his lap and gets to talk while no one else does. Jack broke this rules several amount of times. On some occasions he would also try to steal the conch from the person talking just so he could have his turn to talk. Piggy and Jack would always fight over the

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