I think a critical scene from Lord of the Flies by William Golding is the scene where Piggy's death occurs. Piggy's death symbolizes the loss of the last string to civilization. Piggy is the fat and nerdy character. Piggy's death is explained in just a short, gruesome, sad paragraph. Piggy's death is a tragic death and is especially important for the readers to understand. Piggy's death is described like a pig's death. On page 181, Golding writes that, "Piggy's arms and legs twitched a bit, like a pig's after it has been killed", and this quote describes how Piggy's death was like a pig's. The readers need to notice that Roger was the one to kill Piggy because Roger is one of the violent members of Jack's tribe who is all about killing.
This scene is especially important to the novel as a whole because the death of Piggy and the destruction of the conch, which also happened in this chapter, signify the loss of civilization. Piggy is the character who wants everyone to get along and stay civilized and organized. Piggy acts this way throughout the whole book, and then everything is changed when he dies. The only person who is very upset like no other character about Piggy's death is Ralph. On page 181, Jack says, "See? See? That's what you'll get! I meant that! There isn't a tribe for you anymore! The conch is gone-" Jack does not care that Piggy died, and this shows the readers that him and his tribe only care about killing, and the encourage violence. Piggy's death scene was very important to the novel.
I thought how it was interesting that the authors voice was not emotional at all during Piggy's death. This is definitely an important scene because besides Jack, Piggy was the only thing in the way from the whole tribe becoming savages. The conch was already gone.
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