4. • Piggy is intelligent
• He cares about the boys
wellbeing
• He makes decisions
• He is morally right
• He is focused on getting
rescued, like Ralph, instead
of gathering food and
hunting.
• He knows how to blow the
conch (a symbol of power
and leadership) and has to
explain to Ralph how to do
it
6. • Piggy’s weaknesses are what
doesn’t make him skilled
enough to be chief.
• He relies on Ralph
• Is physically weak
• Is fat and unfit
• Nobody listens to him
because he is of lower class
than everybody else
• He has asthma, which is what
stops him from blowing the
conch himself.
• Wears glasses and is
vulnerable without them.
• Piggys intelligence only helps
the group via Ralph, as Piggy
is Ralphs advisor.
8. • Constantly gave the boys
warnings, but they didn’t
listen, making him a
Cassandra figure.
• By frequently quoting his
aunt, he provides the only
female voice on the island,
something that the boys
aren’t interested in.
• Insists on going to get his
glasses back from Jack at
Castle Rock, so is brave
too late
9. Standing up for what he
believes in gets him killed:
“Which is
better? – to
have rules and
agree or to
hunt and kill?”
10. • All of these things make
piggy the voice of reason,
and once he dies, that
reason is gone – leading
Jack and his tribe to hunt
down Ralph.
• He dies along with the
conch, which “splinter{ed}
into a thousand tiny
pieces and ceased to
exist,” which is the end of
order.
12. • The death of the pig at
the beginning
foreshadows Piggy’s
death, due to his name.
• The increasingly violent
way in which the tribe
were killing the pigs
• His glasses being broken
rendered him “disabled”
and it is the survival of the
fittest
• Rodger, who pushes the
boulder on top of Piggy,
throwing stones at the
littuns.
