Notes

Piggy immediately tries to scold Ralph, but Ralph is preoccupied and "Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph." It is hard for Piggy to feel badly about Jack's departure, of course, and he says they are all better off now that Jack has vowed to stay on the mountain. Piggy does understand that Jack is more dangerous than ever to both him and Ralph, but he is relieved nevertheless.

Soon, however, Piggy gains some confidence. Knowing that no one who is left on the beach ("Ralph's lot") will mock him or tell him to shut up, Piggy begins to take charge.

Piggy was speaking now with more assurance and with what, if the circumstances had not been so serious, the others would have recognized as pleasure. “I said we could all do without a certain person. Now I say we got to decide on what can be done.”

Piggy suggests that they keep a fire going here on the beach (it had been moved up the mountain for a better chance of rescue), and the idea was well received.

The greatest ideas are the simplest. Now there was something to be done they worked with passion. Piggy was so full of delight and expanding liberty in Jack’s departure, so full of pride in his contribution to the good of society, that he helped to fetch wood.

After Jack leaves, Piggy changes dramatically, from an intimidated boy into a real leader. It is a timely transformation, since Ralph is struggling to collect himself after his confrontation with Jack.


-Piggy does become more confident, for example when he wants to confront jack.'i'm going to him with the conch in my hands...i don't ask you to be a sport, not because you're stong, but because what's right's right...'
- Piggy, although at the beginning proved not to believe in the beast, in chapter 8, starts to worry and fear it: ' supposing i got like the others-not caring. What 'ud become of ys?...what makes things break up like they do?'
- he always remains are target of Jack.....(this is because jack wants to hunts pigs, so it is only natural that 'piggy' agitates Jack. (many quotes show this)
- He remains intelligent and represents social order, right until he dies, where it symbolises the breakdown or failure of society.(for example he questions the savages motives, and compare there actions to civilsation: 'which is better - to have rules and agree, or to hunt and kill?'
- he remains loyal to Raplh