Piggy is killed by the boulder that Roger rolls down the side of the hill. In line with his non-athletic nature, Piggy is unable to escape the rock and is struck down, and rolls off the side of the mountain. His body floats away from the savagery of the island to the peace of the sea.

What happens to Piggy at the end of chapter 11? He lodges a huge rock in the direction of Ralph, who dodges it, but the rock ends up shattering the conch shell, a symbol of order and civilization, and strikes Piggy so hard that it sends him flying off the mountain to a forty-foot drop.

Piggy’s Death The death is foreshadowed in the early pages, when Piggy tells Ralph he has asthma, can’t swim, needs his glasses to see, and is sick from the fruit. At the same time, the fact that the boys hunt pigs foreshadows the violent nature of Piggy’s death, as when Jack says “If only I could get a pig!”

Piggy’s death is foreshadowed through this slow, almost unnoticed, eroding of values: from Piggy feeling uneasy around Jack and playing with his glasses in the first chapter to Roger throwing the stones at Henry, to Jack’s disregard for Piggy and the value of his glasses and finally Piggy clutching the conch moments …

With Piggy dead and Samneric taken captive, Ralph is completely on his own and left to fend for himself. Ralph feels hopeless and tries to convince himself that what happened to Piggy was an accident. With Piggy dead and the conch broken, Ralph is hopeless on the island full of savages.

His last words are, “Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?” Piggy has represented the thinker, the intellect, throughout the story.

Roger, the character least able to understand the civilizing impulse, crushes the conch shell as he looses the boulder and kills Piggy, the character least able to understand the savage impulse.

In Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies, Simon also suffers from epileptic seizures and continually faints in front of the boys. Overall, Simon’s epilepsy symbolically associates his character with the saints and prophets of the past and helps characterize him as a symbolic Christ figure in the novel.

In the novel Lord of the Flies, Simon’s death is ironic because he was attempting to tell the other boys that the beast did not exist, but the boys mistook him for the beast. This is a classic example of dramatic irony because the audience is aware of Simon’s knowledge, while the characters are not.

Hallucinations. Part of Schizophrenia is that the person who has the disease experiences several hallucinations. When Simon was talking to The Lord of the Flies, he was experiencing hallucinations. This is one of the reasons why we think Simon has Schizophrenia.

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In the 1990 film adaptation, Jack is portrayed by Chris Furrh. He is sixteen, two years older than Ralph, and has blond hair.