When I read "Lord of the flies" I noticed a foreshadowing. "He was the only boy on the islandwhose hair never seemed to grow (Piggy)", page 67. I thing Golding is trying to say that Piggy is the only boy with common sense. The other boys gets obsessed with living on the island that their becoming more and more brutish. Some of them want to hunt pigs all the time, especially Jack. He is a very violoent boy who loves to be a leader and he dislike Piggy who is quite smart. There is a reason why he is called Piggy, the pigs Jack is hunting is a picture on Piggy, which means that Jack is hunting Piggy (and Piggy know this). This means that early in the book we get to know that something will happen. The result is that Piggy is killed at last. This shows us that they are becoming animals and the only boy who did not transfer was Piggy (and maybe Ralph).
The book is also saying that fire is the only thing that seperate humans from animals. Piggy is their fire (the glasses), and when Piggy dies there is no fire which means that they became animals and Piggy was the one who was trying to stop it.
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Wow. I would never have thought of that myself. I didn't read the book, but i saw the movie, and I have to say, I think you have a point.
SvarSlettRalph is like a hero character in the movie I think. He takes responsibility and most of the people respect him. Piggy however, is the person that nobody likes, maybe because he's honest and different. Almost the only grown up person on the island.
When Piggy died in the movie, I thought it was sad. He was one of the people that talked against the "system". Like Tor said, the ironic part about the book and the movie is that these kids get the opportunity to start a new society, and they make every mistake people has made before them; by killing each other, using the power to their own benefit and so on.