Lord Of The Flies Chapter 10 Analysis

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In chapter 10 Lord of the Flies by William Golding, readers are shocked to see Simon’s death come about in such a grotesque fashion. When Ralph talks to Piggy about the murder to make himself feel better, Piggy refuses to acknowledge his partake in the “accident”. Ralph confronts Piggy, “At last Ralph stopped. He was shivering. “Piggy.” “Uh?” “That was murder.” “ You stop it!” Said Piggy, shrilly. “ What good’er you doing talking like that?” He jumped to his feet and stood over Ralph. “ It was dark. There was that- bloody dance. There was lightning and thunder and rain. We was scared!” “ I wasn't scared,” said Ralph slowly, “ I was- I don't know what I was.” “We was scared!” said Piggy excitedly. “ Anything might have happened. It wasn't- what you said.” He was gesticulating, searching for a formula. …show more content…

He bent down and waited. Ralph, cradling the conch. rocked himself to and fro. “ Don't you understand, Piggy? The things we did--” “ He may still be-” “No” P’raps he was only pretending-” Piggy’s voice trailed off at the sight of Ralph’s face. “You where outside. Outside the circle. You never really came in. Didn't you see what we- what they did?” There was loathing, and at the same time a kind of feverish excitement, in his voice. “ Didn’t you see, Piggy?” “Not all that well. I only got one eye now. You ought to know that Ralph.” Ralph continued to rock to and fro. “It was an accident.” said Piggy suddenly, “that’s what it was. An accident.” His voice shrill again. “Coming in the dark-he hadn’t no business crawling like that out of the dark. He was batty. He asked for it.” He gesticulated widely again”(157). As we commonly see in criminal cases the criminal will deny that he/she commited such crime and have a set story so ingrained in their brain that they begin to

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