Character Analysis: Piggy's Glasses

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gurlyn dhanju: Piggy had told Ralph and Jack that he had his glasses ever since he was three years old. This indicates that Piggy has had bad vision almost his whole life. Its uncommon for three year olds to even have glasses, because that is so young of an age.Him havng glasses since he was three can tell us that hes sesitive, he also has asthma, so that helps my idea of him being sensitive. Piggy must have glasses that have a special type of glass to cause a big fire like that on the mountain. In the book Lord of the flies, his significance of his glasses represent fire, so Piggy's glasses represnt somthing that can maybe rescue them, such as planes seeing the smoke. Or Piggys glasses can represent their ending, because a wild fire could

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