Piggy Flashcards
Key quotes for Piggy from Lord of the Flies.
“Nobody knows where we are, Said Piggy. He was paler than before and breathless. Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not. But they don’t know where we are ‘cos we never got there.”
Chapter 2 - Fire on the Mountain
when the assembly is first called and the boys discover that they are alone on the island.
“Piggy was lying flat, looking down into the brilliant water.”
Chapter 3 - Huts on the Beach
When Jack and Ralph argue for the first time and Ralph uses Piggy to show that nearly all of the boys are lazy or unable (Piggy) and not much help when building shelters
“-a conch; ever so expensive. I bet if you wanted to buy one, you’d have to pay pounds and pounds and pounds”
Chapter 1 - The Sound of the Shell
when Ralph and Piggy find the conch and Piggy realises what it is
“I’ve been thinking,’he said,’ about a clock. We could make a sundial. We could put a stick in the sand, and then-“
Chapter 4 - Painted Faces and Long Hair
When all the boys are lying around, bathing, before the boys take Piggy’s glasses to make a fire. Shows that he comes up with sensible ideas. Thinks more like an adult.
“I know there isn’t no beast- not with claws and all that, I mean- but I know there isn’t no fear, either”
Chapter 5 - Beast from Water
When Piggy is trying to give advice to the littluns, when they think there’s a beast. He is being sympathetic, trying to explain and not just tell them that there’s no beast.
“Piggy let out his breath with a gasp, reached for it again and failed. He lay against a log, his mouth gaping, blue shadows creeping round his lips. Nobody minded him”
Chapter 6 - Beast from Air
When their all trying to figure out a plan about the beast after SamnEric supposedly saw the beast. Shows how irrelevant Piggy is compared to the other boys.
‘my auntie told me’
Chapter 1 - The sound of the shell.
This shows how Piggy needs to be looked after and have someone to check on him. Golding used piggy to show the innocence among the boys.
‘Piggy peered anxiously into the luminous veil that hung between him and the world’
Chapter 11 - castle rock
This shows the atavism of piggy. He has not regressed into savagery but it’s vulnerability.
‘The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist’
Chapter 11 - castle rock
Piggy’s death is not at all dignified but Golding uses the death of Piggy and the destruction of the conch to show the absolute destruction of rationality.
“He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat. He came forward, searching out safe lodgements for his feet, and then looked up through thick spectacles.”
Chapter 1 - the sound of the shell
Piggy’s first appearance and the second person found on the island.
“Something strange was happening to Piggy, for he was gasping for breath.”
Chapter 2 - fire on the mountain
This is before he says one of the little’uns was missing he was having a asthma attack
“The rock struck Piggy a glancing blow from chin to knee; the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.”
chapter 11 - castle rock
When Piggy was struck with the rock with Piggy’s death brought also the death of the conch.
