How Does Piggy Change In Lord Of The Flies

Despite each person's different background, every individual contains the capacity of committing violence. Golding develops this theme thoroughly throughout his novel, the Lord of the Flies. We see this through many of the characters such as Piggy, Jack, Ralph, and Simon. The characters seem to come from all walks of life, but most of them show the same characteristics by the end of the book.

Piggy’s personality and morals change drastically throughout the novel. It is shown in the beginning, Piggy appears as a scared little boy that got badly bullied at school. He differs from others because of his weight, asthma, and glasses. The children assume that his appearance means that he would not be a good leader. Although Piggy provided large amounts

In the beginning, Jack came off as a little bit cocky, and he wanted to be the leader of everything. "I ought to be chief," said Jack with simple arrogance, "because I'm chapter chorister and head boy. I can sing C sharp." (Golding 24) He came off as stuck up, bratty, and overall a mean person. Everybody put up with Jack, but he started to get frustrated at the way Ralph ran the island. He decided that he would take some of his hunters, and start a rival tribe to the one that Ralph led. His anger became worse, and he started to change from his former self. The tensions came to a head, and Jack started to take things from Ralph. It started by just raiding their camp, and stealing flaming logs from their fire, but it ended with them tearing down Ralph’s shelters, and stealing Piggy’s glasses. Piggy could not see without his glasses, and the boys were not able to start a fire without them either. When they went to take them back from Jack, he would not budge, and an argument followed. "You pinched Piggy's specs," said Ralph, breathlessly. "You've got to give them back." (Golding 218) Piggy ended up getting killed, and Jack showed no remorse for his actions. He and his tribe started to chase Ralph, trying to kill him. Ralph was only saved by the sailor coming onto the island to rescue the boys. Ralph remained one of the only boys who seemed to stay clear headed during the stay on the

He started out in the beginning as the leader of the whole company. He became elected, mostly because he blew the conch to bring them all together. He decided that they needed a signal fire, and created priorities for them to do. He made the shelters, and assigned people to their roles during their stay on the island. Jack tried to overthrow him as leader several times but no one voted for him because of his ego. When Simon died, Ralph seemed to be the only one that seemed to realize that he took a part in it, and that Simon did not deserve to die. "That was murder." (Golding 191) Piggy and other boys claimed that they did not have a role in Simon’s death, or that they didn’t know what happened because of the darkness, but Ralph knew what really happened. He led the group to Jack’s area of the island to get Piggy’s glasses back, and to try and end the quarrel between them. When Jack sent people out to kill Ralph, he ran and hid well enough to survive, until he ran into the sailor at the end of the island. “The officer looked at Ralph doubtfully for a moment, then took his hand away from the butt of the revolver.” (Golding 247) His quick thinking and leadership skills allowed him to