In this passage we can see how hurt and betrayed Piggy felt at the fact that Ralph told the others “his real name was Piggy”. Before this incident happened, Piggy had told Ralph that he didn’t care what he called him, as long as he didn’t call him Piggy. The reason Piggy didn’t want him to call him that was because in school the other students used to call him that due to his weight. What those students did, in my opinion, is bullying. Bullying wasn’t the main reason William Golding wrote this book, of course, but I think he added this part to his novel because he wanted to show the readers that bullying just doesn’t happen at schools, or at jobs, bullying can happen anywhere, even at an island, like it did in this novel. This passage obviously
