Piggy Lord Of The Flies Character Analysis

In this political allegory Lord of the Flies there is one boy that appears different from the rest, he is arbitrated because of this reason too. Piggy is the most organized and he also has the best ideas about how to organize themselves. Yet, the other boys never listen to him and all they do is abuse him. Golding is using Piggy to advance the novel’s theme because he always comes forth with new, amazing ideas, but no one will take note of his ideas because of his shape and size. The author of Lord of the Flies, Golding, is trying to portray that you should not judge a book by its cover, you may never know what they that person may have to offer you. Overall, Piggy is not listened to because of his appearance and the others change to savagery. …show more content…
Piggy sees the conch shell and lets Ralph know that they could the shell to try to bring everyone together. Piggy told Ralph if they needed to start a meeting that they could simply blow into the conch because it is loud. Piggy told Ralph, that they could start a fire to try draw the attention of the ships passing by. So, if they would have listened to Piggy in the first place, they would have got off the island sooner than they did. The other boys would rarely listen to Piggy and mistreat him because of the way he looks. For example, no one would listen to him because he is heavy, which is not how the others look. The other boys knew that they could do anything they wanted to him because he would not defend himself, Piggy knew if he tried to standup for himself it would just become worse, they would continue to abuse him and maybe even in a more cruel fashion. The way that Piggy looks is too big of a deciding factor for everyone else, if they put the way he looks aside, they would have seen that their problem would have been solved