How Is Piggy Presented In Lord Of The Flies

Tony Caselle

Poling

English 2

9/7/15

Lord of the Flies: Piggy's child and intelligent sides In the novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding, Piggy occasionally is shown doing child-like things and acting childish, but he stills possesses the intelligence of an adult.

Throughout the novel, Piggy is continually mentioned as to having child like qualities, in Chapter 1, Piggy is shown talking to Ralph about how his only adult figure was his Auntie: "I used to live with my auntie. She kept a candy store. I used to get ever so many candies. As many as I liked" (13). Before they crashed on the island Piggy was pampered like a child by his "Auntie", she gave him whatever he wanted and sheltered him from any physical activity, that's why he is overweight and treated as a child for his non self-confidence and lack of physical activity. During the novel, Piggy is mentioned to have asthma or as the boys call it “assmar”, he is also shown to be fat- “He bent down, removed the thorns carefully, and turned around. He was shorter than the fair boy [Ralph] and very fat” (7). Piggy is demonstrated with child-like qualities, normally with asthma, the symptoms and coughing usually go away

Even when the boys decide that whoever is holding the conch get to speak, the boys interrupt and take the conch away. The boys treat Piggy so much like a child and not a part of their society because he was still at the stage of puberty unlike