Piggy Quotes Flashcards
Quote about Piggy being the outsider (beginning)
For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again.
Quotes about Piggy being derisive towards the boys (beginning)
Piggy watched him in disgust.
“Like a crowd of kids–”
“Like kids!” he said scornfully. “Acting like a crowd of kids!”
Quote about the other boys disliking Piggy (beginning)
There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor
Quotes about Piggy being physically inferior (beginning)
He was shorter than the fair boy and very fat
“That’s right. Can’t catch my breath. I was the only boy in our school what had asthma,”
“And I’ve been wearing specs since I was three.”
Quote about Piggy being logical and sensible (beginning)
“I got the conch! Just you listen! The first thing we ought to have made was shelters down there by the beach. It wasn’t half cold down there in the night. But the first time Ralph says ‘fire’ you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain. Like a pack of kids!”
Quote about Piggy being intellectual (beginning)
What intelligence had been shown was traceable to Piggy.
Quote about Ralph thinking that Piggy is annoying (beginning)
Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull
Quote about Piggy performing habitual acts (beginning)
He sighed, bent, and laced up his shoes
Important quote about Piggy being the ‘adult’ of the island (beginning)
Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children
Quotes about Piggy referring to his auntie (beginning)
“My auntie told me not to run,”
“My auntie–”
Quote about Piggy being rational (middle)
Life,” said Piggy expansively, “is scientific, that’s what it is. In a year or two when the war’s over they’ll be traveling to Mars and back. I know there isn’t no beast–not with claws and all that, I mean–but I know there isn’t no fear, either.”
Quote about Piggy talking to hunters (middle)
“What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages? What’s grownups going to think? Going off–hunting pigs–letting fires out–and now!”
Quote about Ralph realising that Piggy’s brain is actually very useful to the group (middle)
Piggy could think. He could go step by step inside that fat head of his, only Piggy was no chief. But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.
Quote about Piggy denying being involved in Simon’s death (middle)
“That’s right. We was on the outside. We never done nothing, we never seen nothing.”
Piggy caring about what the adults would think (middle)
“What’s grownups going to say?” cried Piggy again. “Look at ‘em!”
