Why Is Piggy Important In Lord Of The Flies

Have you ever been stranded on an island with no adults and been made fun of and taken for advantage? The novel The Lord Of The flies was written by William Golding. He wrote the novel during WWII. Piggy is a fat kid from Britain. In his school he was bullied and that is where he got the name piggy. Piggy believes he is unimportant and not needed , fails to ignore mistreatment and name calling from others, and engages in low self esteem while often continuing to say what he wants which effects the novel positively.
Piggy is perceived as a fat and annoying kid they don’t really like and don’t think he is important. This is shown when Jack Merridew said, “your talking to much shut up fatty” (Golding 27). This is important because they are treating

piggy like he is nobody because he is fat but if they didn’t then he would have given them a good idea. If they would have let piggy speak they might have had an idea that would help them in the long run. In the end of the story this effects it negatively.
According to Piggy he says “I don’t care what they call me, so long as they don’t call me what they used to call me at school” (Golding 12). In his school they called him piggy because he was fat. The kids called him fatty and made fun of him in the beginning of the story but by the end of the first couple chapters they stopped making fun of him. This effects the entire novel because if they would have just excepted piggy they might have been found faster. By they end of the story this effects it positively.
On page 127 in The Lord of The Flies someone says to piggy “Who cares what you believe-Fatty!” (Golding). This shows that people don’t listen to him and don’t care what he says but he doesn’t care. No matter what people say to him he keeps saying what he wants anyway. This bothers Piggy but he doesn’t let that stop him from speaking his mind when he has an idea. Because of his characteristics he effects the novel positively.