Piggy's Selflessness

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Along with that, he is clearly bothered for the “others” on the island and plays the role of an adult himself, though the irony is his concern over the absence of a commanding adult figure. Piggy, how much ever emotionless, is not self-centered, his selflessness appears throughout till the book till the end of his short life. “All...other kids,....[they] must have got out [of the wrecked plane]...mustn't they,” Piggy reveals his concern for the other kids on the same plane as him, which communicates with the reader his kindly nature. “We got to find the others. We got to do something,” Piggy, repeatedly gives us a view of his eagerness to conduct action and cope with being on the Island, despite his dismay on the lack of adult supervision.

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