LOTF Response


Analyzed Section: Piggy's Death(180-181)

Right before Ralph hears the rock, while everyone is shouting and arguing, the narrator focuses on Piggy for a split second, saying "By him stood Piggy, holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell." This sentence shows how in the midst of all the chaos and anger, the conch and all of its order is still there. But then after the conch is "shattered into thousands of tiny fragments", all of the peace and order was lost. And Piggy, the only one who still believed in the conch, had been destroyed just like the conch. Another thing to note right before Piggy's death is how personification is used when describing the boulder rolling down the mountain. The passage goes, "... and he flung himself flat while the tribe shrieked." This pronoun, (his), can be seen as the rock being the beast, or maybe the boulder is just being used like this for no reason.

The final thing that will be analyzed is everyone's reaction. Right after Piggy's gruesome and vivid death, everyone is quiet for a moment, until Jack screams, "See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that!", and he proceeds to throw a spear into Ralph's side. After this happens, Ralph is said to not be hurting from this wound, but he is panicked. This is because the entire tribe is screaming and charging after him. This is Piggy's death analyzed in 2 paragraphs.


Comments

  1. FireballtriNovember 13, 2017 at 12:37 PM

    I like how you specified each part of the death scene and gave it more meaning. Good job identifying this and showing its meaning.

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  2. CadeNovember 16, 2017 at 6:00 AM

    The death scene was very detailed and was meaningful. His death needed to be more recognized but wasn't in the book. Good job!

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