Golding’s representation of the deaths of Simon and Piggy Essay

How is language used to describe events? dissertate the link between these sections and characterisation of the two boys earlier in the novel.From the beginning the reader can recognise that Simon and neanderthal be set apart from the rest of the boys. Both their psychical and mental military capability to victuals on the island is distinct to the other boys on the island.It is humorous that all the children will physical defects die. The first close is of the littelun with the birthmark. Later Simon and loutish die, all three of these characters have defects, Simon is epileptic and Piggy is asthmatic, overweight and wears glasses. This makes the characters seem odd or it could also simply mean that they were non strong plenty to survive on the island. except their characters make them see more special rather than weak. It is also ironic that Piggy, the adept with the or so deficiencies dies the most violently.The first time we meet Simon, he is in his choir robes. He faints on the beach because of the instigate and Jack mocks him. We know he is delicate. He has epilepsy. We find taboo astir(predicate) Simons appearance, which also highlights Simons characteristicsHe was a skinny, vivid little boy, with a glance coming up from under a hut of straight hair that hung down, black and courseHe is helpful and works for the good of others he is the only one to stick with Ralph to make the shelters. He is kind to the littluns and finds fruit for them. The others recognise he is different to them in some way. Ralph frowned. Hes queer. Hes funny. Piggy says Hes cracked. He has a secret place in a clearing full of flowers and butterflies and is sufficiently at one with the jungle to walk in it alone at night. He is at one with nature and he has no fear. He seems able to prophesy he is the first to suggest as if it wasnt a good island and he tells Ralph, Youll get back to where you came from.He is the most perceptive about the beast. He says perhaps th ere is a beastWhat I mean is maybe its only us.He is the only one to see that the problems on the island stem from the boys relationships with each other, not from an outside force. Yet no understands what hes trying to say. When the Lord of the Flies says to him this idea is reiterated the voice in Simons idea saysFancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill You knew, didnt you? Im part of you?He is killed just as he is about to reveal the truth. It is ironic that he is the only one who finds out that the beast was a dead parachutist, but is denied passing on the message because the groups of boys think, in their frenzy, he is the beast. temper cargons for Simons body in termination just as it had in life.The waves turned the corpse lightly in the water. Softly, surrounded by a fringe of bright inquisitive creatures, itself a silver plaster cast beneath the steadfast constellations, Simons dead body moved out towards the open sea.Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination to manual labour.Piggy has physical disadvantages because he is fat and asthmatic and is short sighted. Without his glasses, everything becomes a blur. He is very intelligent in Chp.1 it is his idea to make a list of names and it is he who realises that no adult knows the boys are on the island. Later he suggests making sundial and hats. Ralph recognises Piggy could think Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains.However, he does not speak as grammatically accurately as the othersHow can you expect to be rescues if you dont direct first things first and act proper.Perhaps this is to suggest he wasnt as well better as the others and that he is not from the right class of people to be a successful leader at the time the novel was written, most power was still in the hands of the middle and pep pill classes.He is embarrassed by his nickname, and he behaves with dignity when R alph betrays the name to the others. We never know his real name. He is kind and considerate to the littluns kindred Simon. He helps the boy with the birthmark talk about the snake-thing and helps Percival talk about the beast. He is later often left to care for them when the others are exploring and hunting. He has the most mature attitude of whatever boy on the island. He scornfully sees the other boysActing exchangeable a labour of kids.Piggy is pragmatic. When Simon dies, Piggy tries to convince Ralph there was nothing they could have doneIt was an accident and thats that. exchangeable Ralph, he believes in polite values and clings to what creates orderI just take the conch to say this. I cant see no more and I got to get my glasses back. He shouts, I got the conch when they go to the fort to confront Jack, to try to show Jack that he has a right to be heard.Piggy and the conch are destroyed together by the rock Roger levers. Thus, intelligence and the symbol of authority a re dead, so we know that there is nothing left to stop Jack gaining full tick. At the end, Ralph mourns the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.Simon and Piggys deaths have a hook to do with their personalities and their life on the island. Simons death is caused by the other boys getting out of control, ironically its the first time that Simon tries to communicate properly with the group but he still isnt able to. Simon and Piggys death are very different. Simon, is killed as part of a religious rite that the boys create in their frenzied dance, its not premeditated or planned in any way, but is committed as a group act when all the boys are in a weird sort of hypnotic state, in doing their dance, they have abandoned all sense of being civilised and human, and just gone along with their dark side. As Simon was closest to nature he is lucky enough to be sacredly taken away by the sea. At least forward he dies he discovers the truth behind the island.With t he death of Simon the boys are one step nearer to barbarity. The murder of Simon is particularly dread(a) because it involves all the other boys they get caught up in the frenzied chantThe crowd leapt onto the beast, screamed, struck, bit, tore.Also, even Piggy and Ralph join in, so Golding is showing that the possibility of doing wrong when in a mob situation is not confined to the bad characters.It also helps continue the religious allegory in the book. Simon is often associated with Christ or a saint. He has come down from the mountain to bring good news, that they have nothing to fear. ilk Christ and so many saints, though, he is not thanked or welcomed but killed for trying to help. Even though Simons death was quite brutal his body is carried away in a very spiritual and he appears like an angelSimons coarse hair with brightnessGolding makes out that Simon is an angel and has a halo around his head. This again contributes to the religious allegory in the book. The world is also mentioned making Simons death seem something that has affected the all told world and not just something that can be express to a group of savages.From the beginning of the chapter you can sense the atmosphere because the weather shows how the boys are feeling. The boys are flinching and the call stroke is used which shows that something violent is about to happens. The rain starts of very light but as they are killing Simon a storm breaks out signifying that they are releasing their anger. In a way Simon merit his special ending because of the way he was being portrayed as the beast and the fact that they were calling Simon it. Simons death brings the chapter to a nice end and brings some significance to his death. Where as with Piggy his death is very short and is in the middle of the chapter and then pushed aside and then the rest of the story carries on without care.Piggys death is him fighting for what is right, but unfortunately hes fighting barbarism not rational h uman beings any more. The choir has turned into a bunch of painted hunters who do exactly what Jack tells them. It is Roger who kills Piggy who is described as a bag of fat just before the rock actually hits Piggy, though, Golding says he is holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty the shell. This shows that Piggy is the guardian of the thing that the conch stands for, right, justice, freedom of speech and order. The actual description of Piggys head smashing on the square red rock is rather grotesque and gruesome and is seen very much as a child would describe it. His legs and arms twitch like a pigs after it has been killed. It is ironic that the conch should almost die the same time that Piggy does. At this point all sense of control and civilised behaviour has been shattered.Piggy is killed partly because Roger realises he can hurt somebody can function power over another living creature, without being punished for it. At the start of the novel Roger is throwing s tones at some of the little ones. At that point he is still too conditioned by his ult to actually throw to hit the children. By the end the restraints of civilisation have disappeared and he feels free to do as he likes. Piggys death is described in a child like manner where Golding uses words such as stuff and this is ironic because Piggy was the most adult like on the island. Unlike Simon deaths Piggys is quick and graphical.Simon and Piggys death can also be similar because both of them didnt have time to say what they wanted toPiggy, saying nothing, with no time for event a gruntPiggy tries to get the message across that the conch is still historic and that rules are still important. Simon wanted to tell the truth about the beast about how they didnt collect to be scared anymore. Both of these were vital messages that could have salvage the boys from their savage behavior and could have saved the lives of Simon and Piggy. The difference between Simon and Piggys death is tha t Simons death was seen as an accident that the whole group was responsible for whereas Piggys death was caused on purpose and was caused by one singled person, then making it seem worse out of the two.