Roger saw Piggy holding the conch in his hands, and aimed a giant bolder at him. It stuck him with force sending him off the cliff to his death, and causing the conch to break in his hands. Now no power was in the right hand, and all the power was in the wrong
The lens breaking symbolizes destruction of the society. Since a lens can break very easily, so can their society. Lastly, towards the end of the book, Piggy was holding the conch and was saying that he had the right to speak. Roger was tired of Piggy whining so he put all of his weight on the big boulder and watched it roll down the hill and hit Piggy. “The rock bounded twice and was lost in the forest.
This is shown when the boys use the glasses to start a fire for themselves, which is a crucial element to survival. “Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.” (41) This describes when they used Piggy’s glasses to make the fire on the mountain. The glasses are also used to represent order and when the first lenses shatters, it signifies the start of corruption in their society. The pig head that was impaled on the stake symbolizes the evil within the boys and was a sacrifice to please the beast. When Simon hallucinates and hears the pig head talking to him, it foreshadows his death by explaining who the beast really is.
We had seen his disappointment in Jack and his hunters for putting out the fire and now we see this taken up to another level. During this meeting the topic of conversation turns to the alleged 'beastie' as the boys are discussing it; one boy suggests that the beast naturally eats pig, this then jumps into another boys remark that: 'We eat pig' the possible causes for the authors input for this remark will be explained in the upcoming paragraphs. A while after in an effort to present his thoughts Simon says the following; `What I meant is... maybe it's only us. '...Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. "-Simon This is when we first see the phrase 'mankind's essential illness' as a thought of Simons; showing his understanding of the matter is far superior to his age.
But that was lost when Roger killed Piggy and destroyed the conch. “The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee, the conch exploded into a million white fragments and ceased to exist.
‘C’mon Curley let’s get it over with, he’s gettin’ what’s comin’ to him’. Curley laughed, ‘hell no, I ain’t finished with him yet, I said I was gonna make the son-of-a-bitch die slow an’ that’s jus’ what I’m gonna do’. He moved closer, put his left foot on Lennie’s chest, feeling the beat of his heart thundering through his body. Lennie cried, ‘George, I’m sorry George’. The muzzle of the shotgun pressed hard against his broad chest, ‘Jesus Curley ain’t it jus’ fittin’ ‘nough that we gonna hang his sorry ass that you have to do that?’ Curley fired point-blank into Lennie’s abdomen, the smell of sulphur and cooked flesh filled the air as the contents of the shells tore into him.
They then come up with the idea of the conch. Throughout the book, the reader can see their civilized ways start to digress. When Piggy is crushed by the boulder, the conch shatters along with him. This symbolizes that the boy’s need for order and civilization is completely gone. This is one of the many symbols Golding used throughout the
Piggy was killed during a fight between the two gangs, one of the members known as roger pushed the rock on top of Piggy. “The rock stuck Piggy a glancing bow from chin knee...traveled through the air sideways from the rock... Fell forty feet and landed on his back. His head opened and came and turned red”. The death of a fellow companion should have at least brought some civilization to the island but since the boys degenerated to savages this wasn’t the case. The boys’ savage show that they are savages by how the pigs are killed.
7. A boulder hit Piggy, shattered the conch shell while he was holding it, and knocked him off the mountainside to his death on the rocks below. 8. Jack’s “savages” treat Samneric horribly; they tortured them until they made them join Jack’s tribe. 9.
The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist. Piggy, says nothing, with no time for even a grunt, traveled through the air sideways from the rock, turning over as he went. Many mistakes were made when Ralph, Piggy, Jack, and the rest of the boys were stranded on the island, Piggy’s death is one of those mistakes. The boys allowed many things to go wrong while they were stranded on that island. For example, they didn’t have a well thought out system for the leadership roles on the island.